[PATCH][RFC] space saving incrementals

2002-03-07 Thread jw schultz
Please CC me directly as i'm not on the list. I have attached a patch against latest CVS (cvs diff -u) that adds the following functionality. I can break it up if you would prefer it in pieces. Comments welcome. o add compare-perms option This creates a new inode for a

Re: [PATCH][RFC] space saving incrementals

2002-03-08 Thread jw schultz
not be linked between monday and tuesday even though the contents haven't changed. compare-perms only makes sense when you are using link-dest. > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:25:50PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > Please CC me directly as i'm not on the list. > > >

Re: [PATCH][RFC] space saving incrementals

2002-03-11 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:41:07PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:05:14PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:45:04PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > I like link-dest, and the "-" for exclude-from/include-from was a

Re: [PATCH][RFC] space saving incrementals

2002-03-12 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:41:07PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:05:14PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:45:04PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > I like link-dest, and the "-" for exclude-from/include-from was a

[PATCH] --link-dest option

2002-03-21 Thread jw schultz
Please CC me. I'm not subscribed. Attached is a patch against 2.5.4pre1 CVS current to add the --link-dest option so rsync will create hardlinks for unchanged regular files to a directory on the destination. This is like --compare-dest except that the result is not a sparse tree. Also included

Re: [PATCH] --link-dest option

2002-03-21 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:44:34PM -0800, Martin Pool wrote: > On 21 Mar 2002, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please CC me. I'm not subscribed. > > > > Attached is a patch against 2.5.4pre1 CVS current to add the > > --link-dest option so rsync w

Re: possibly new rsync trick: rotating snapshots

2002-04-09 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:07:49AM +, Mike Rubel wrote: > Hello all, > > I've found a simple, rsync-based trick to emulate the "rotating snapshots" > feature found on some file servers, and hope that members of this group > will find it useful and/or interesting: > > http://www.mikerubel.org

Re: Error handling with rsync

2002-04-18 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 07:23:38PM -0700, Martin Pool wrote: > On 18 Apr 2002, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since I uses rsync in a perl script I'd rather prefer to get error codes from > > rsync instead of messages at STDOUT. Is there an option which tells rsync it > > should return e

Re: [PATCH] --soften-links option (fwd from md@Linux.IT) Re: rsync and debian mirrors

2002-04-19 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:05:15AM -0700, Martin Pool wrote: > Any thoughts? > > I have half a mind to turn it on by default, but I guess it's better > not to. I'm not sure what current behaviour is but I'd be inclined to say that the default behaviour in this case should be to put a copy of the

Re: rsync & ssh & a specific Port

2002-04-29 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 06:53:54PM -0400, Administrator wrote: > I am trying to use rsync over ssh to a specific port and am having no luck. Any >help would be greatly apprecaited. > > This is what I have: > > rsync --delete -rlogptvz -e ssh /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/safe/backup/ > > If so

Re: bug report

2002-05-10 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:50:59PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, terrell Larson wrote: > > The [option-specifying form] of the -e option is not documented. > > IMHO it should be. > > I agree. I've whipped up the following patch for rsync.yo, which I > will commit to CVS in a

Re: bug report

2002-05-11 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:16:27AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, jw schultz wrote: > > Also the example is an odd one. > > It doesn't seem odd to me since the -l option is the one that I've used > most in ssh (when I don't use the config

Re: bug report

2002-05-11 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:35:30AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > OK, I just checked in a change that uses some of your suggested text to > remove a bit of the chattiness. I also improved the RSYNC_RSH section > to mention the legality of command-line options. See if you like it > better. > > --

Re: Improving the rsync protocol (RE: Rsync dies)

2002-05-17 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 01:42:31PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Fri, 17 May 2002, Allen, John L. wrote: > > In my humble opinion, this problem with rsync growing a huge memory > > footprint when large numbers of files are involved should be #1 on > > the list of things to fix. > > I have cert

Re: Compressed backup

2002-05-24 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:47:00PM -0700, Matthias Munnich wrote: > Hi > > I am using rsync for backup on the disks of a Linux backup server. > Obviously the server could store more data it the data were > compressed. I read the "rsync -> tar" thread. Unfortunately, a > compressed file system fo

Re: Syncing open files

2002-05-30 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:57:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just a few quick questions.. > Does rsync copy open files? > If so, does file integrity remain intact? > I’m looking to backup IIS log files and maybe Oracle and SQL Server DB files. If >rsync isn’t appropriate, what would you

Re: Compressed backup

2002-05-30 Thread jw schultz
This whole discussion on the efficiency of rsyncing pre-compressed files is probably pointless for Matthias Munnich. He is trying to do backups. Therefore, he doesn't want the originals compressed. On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:45:16PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:03:56P

Re: Compressed backup

2002-05-31 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:45:43AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:35:05PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > [...] > > > There is a patch available to gzip to add an option --rsyncable that's > > > supposed to make it work better with r

Re: -c Option

2002-05-31 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:27:27PM +0200, Dick Streefland wrote: > On Thursday 2002-05-30 12:43, Michael Montero wrote: > | That's great news. I believe this applies to me just fine and I > | can turn off the checksum. Quick questioncan anyone explain to me > | when the data in a file mi

Re: Compressed backup

2002-06-01 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 08:51:26PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 05:25:15PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:45:43AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:35:05PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: [...] > &g

Re: Compressed backup

2002-06-01 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:46:37PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 04:57:15AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 08:51:26PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 05:25:15PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > [...] >

Re: Compressed backup

2002-06-04 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 05:43:17PM +1000, Kevin Easton wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 05:18:42PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 11:46:37PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 04:57:15AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > &

Re: Strong encryption

2002-06-05 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:42:12AM +0200, C.Zimmermann wrote: > We need to encrypt files before transferring them to the destination > Host for security reasons. > Encryption must be strong: IDEA, 3DES or similar. > One way would be the integration of PGP into rsync. > > Is there any PGP integra

Re: Strong encryption

2002-06-05 Thread &#x27;jw schultz'
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:21:18PM +0200, C.Zimmermann wrote: > > > > If you want them stored on the destination encrypted you > > Yes, that´s it. The owner of the source files will be sure, that no one > else can read his files on the destination host. > > I thought, rsync only looks at the mo

Re: Strong encryption

2002-06-05 Thread &#x27;jw schultz'
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:45:44PM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:33:23AM -0700, 'jw schultz' wrote: > > As you have said rsync normally just looks at the modification date > > And the file size. This check, to the best of my knowledge, cannot

Re: Strong encryption

2002-06-05 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:22:28PM +0200, C.Zimmermann wrote: > > > > > > >I thought, rsync only looks at the modification date of a file and > > >decides whether to backup this file or not. > > > > > By default, it does not, in fact it's REAL usefullness it's that uit > > examines the content

Re: Acls support in rsync

2002-06-05 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:57:22PM +0200, Olivier Tarnus wrote: > Hi, > > I already wrote about this subject last month but didn't get attention... > > I've found a way to transfert acls with a script and applying them. This > process has already been described in this mailing list > (http://l

Re: Rsync of filesystems with sym-links to other hosts

2002-06-09 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 05:35:01PM +0800, Leaw, Chern Jian wrote: > HI, > > I have a scenario where a filesystem i.e /fs13/m6.uecommon.1/wmt8/utils is > residing on a fileserver i.e. fs13. Contents of this filesystem are as > follows: > > # ls -l /fs13/m6.uecommon.1/wmt8/utils > lrwxrwxrwx

Re: documentation bug for --daemon "use chroot" in conjunction with -o and -g

2002-06-24 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:24:20PM -0400, pyxl wrote: > Well, it's definitely not in either of the man pages - and those should > be the canonical documentation of rsync's behavior. But it's a small > bug (with big teeth!). > > Corey Stup wrote: > > > pyxl wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Tr

Re: extension of rsync on crypted files

2002-06-27 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:26:51PM +0200, Mikael moshir wrote: > > Hello, > > I am a french student and I have written a technical > report on an extension of the rsync algorithm to crypted > files. I started from the situation of a client machine A > user who doesn't wish to save an original

Re: Largest file system being synced

2002-06-27 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:21:08PM -0400, Granzow, Doug (NCI) wrote: > We're planning to move to Veritas Volume Replicator. It has the advantage > of working at the filesystem level, so whenever a write is done on the > primary site, the same write is automatically done on the mirror site. For >

Re: Block size optimization - let rsync find the optimal blocksize by itself.

2002-06-30 Thread jw schultz
I dislike flaming and i don't intend my comments as flame but you have made some statements that at face value are problematic. Perhaps you could correct my misunderstanding. On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Olivier Lachambre wrote: > Hello, > Another French student in the rsync maili

Re: [PATCH] Compressed output files

2002-07-03 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 05:51:58PM -0600, Joel Votaw wrote: > > Attached is a patch that implements compressing output files as they're > written to disk, uzing zlib. Thus far I've only used it with > synchronizing directories on a single machine. This certainly would be useful once reliable.

Re: directory replication between two servers

2002-07-03 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:10:13AM -0700, Eric Ziegast wrote: > > I am two Linux servers with rsync server running on both. Now I am > > replicating directories in both servers with the command rsync -avz > > My requirement is, if I made any changs in the first server, say server > > A, I w

Re: strip setuid/setgid bits on backup (was Re: small security-related rsync extension)

2002-07-08 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 06:01:48PM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:37:13PM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote: > > I'm inclined to push for more flexibility with: > > Actually, make that: > > --post-send= > --post-recv= > Runs on the sender/receiver just before rsync exits. >

Re: strip setuid/setgid bits on backup (was Re: small security-related rsync extension)

2002-07-08 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 09:18:18PM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:52:16AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > Also the path should not be fully qualified but instead should match > > that of the commandline with cwd the same as the rsync launch. > > If the se

Re: strip setuid/setgid bits on backup (was Re: small security-related rsync extension)

2002-07-08 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 08:52:29AM -0700, Eric Horst wrote: > > Hi, I'm new around here and thought I'd join the discussion. Hope that's > ok. > > > I'm inclined to push for more flexibility with: > > > > --post-process= > > Runs on the receiver just before rsync exits. > > is passe

Re: strip setuid/setgid bits on backup (was Re: small security-related rsync extension)

2002-07-08 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:56:57PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > Any thoughts on whether this should go in? I can see arguments either > way. It seems like we ought to think about whether it would be better > to do it as part of a generalized --chmod or --chmod-backup facility. > > > > On 21 Ju

Re: strip setuid/setgid bits on backup (was Re: small security-related rsync extension)

2002-07-08 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:40:58PM -0400, Lenny Foner wrote: > Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 21:18:18 +0800 > From: Adrian Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If the sender's/receiver's cwd is guaranteed to be the root of the > corresponding rsync'd hierarchies, then yes, relative paths would >

Re: strip setuid/setgid bits on backup (was Re: small security-related rsync extension)

2002-07-09 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:03:25AM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:04:57PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > The default behavior should not modify files. The general > > purpose is to have the copies be the same as the original. > > A general --chmod or

Re: Rsync Memory Issues - Kernel 2.4.18 - Box Hangs

2002-07-10 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:50:00PM -0700, Rick Parada wrote: > Hi, > > Im running a Dell 6450 w/ 4GB of memory, 2 2GB Swap Partitions. Redhat 7.3 > kernel 2.4.18 (kernel.org). It runs our images for our site. We use rsync to > sync images from a main image box. It runs fine for maybe 4 days until

Re: Linux and Solaris performance

2002-07-17 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 01:52:15PM -0400, Dave North wrote: > We have an interesting quandry here. When I'm rsync'ing my directory > tree (100 directories each containing 1000 files) I see some strange > results: > > All of these machines are on their own network segment (100t) in our QA > lab >

Re: superlifter design notes and rZync feedback

2002-07-18 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:19:40AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > Martin Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've put a cleaned-up version of my design notes up here > > http://samba.org/~mbp/superlifter/design-notes.html > > I'll start with some feedback on your rzync comments: > > Re: rzync

Re: superlifter design notes (was Re: Latest rZync release: 0.06)

2002-07-21 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 02:00:21PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 21 Jul 2002, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > .From what i can see rsync is very clever. The biggest > > problems i see with its inability to scale for large trees, > > a little bit of accum

Re: superlifter design notes (OpenVMS perspective)

2002-07-21 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:34:37PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 22 Jul 2002, "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you structure the protocol processing where no subroutine ever posts > > a write and then waits for a read, you can set up a library that can be > > used eithe

Re: superlifter design notes (OpenVMS perspective)

2002-07-21 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:31:51PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 21 Jul 2002, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That is the better approach. Use I/O routines so most > > processing can be "while (get_input()) { process(); send_output()}" > &

Re: superlifter design notes (was Re: Latest rZync release: 0.06)

2002-07-26 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 09:03:32AM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote: > 2002-07-26-03:37:51 jw schultz: > > All that matters is that we can represent the timestamps in > > a way that allows consistent comparison, restoration and > > transfer. > > A very good statement inde

Re: superlifter design notes (OpenVMS perspective)

2002-07-27 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 02:50:52PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Lenny Foner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >jw schultz wrote: > > I find the use of funny chars (including space) in filenames > > offensive but we need to deal with internationalizatio

Re: Pipelined rsync proposal (was Re: superlifter design notes)

2002-07-28 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 02:04:02PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, jw schultz wrote: > > What i am seeing is a Multi-stage pipeline. > > This is quite an interesting design idea. Let me comment on a few > things that I've been mulling over since fir

Re: superlifter design notes (OpenVMS perspective)

2002-07-28 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 05:39:22PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 27 Jul 2002, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The server has no need to deal with cleint limitations. I > > am saying that the protocol would make the bare minimum of > > limitatons (null ter

Re: timestamp on symlink

2002-07-28 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:40:56PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 28 Jul 2002, Michael Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > rsync does not sync the timestamp on symlink (Solaris 8). > > > > It is probablly due to the limitation of Unix implementation > > of symlink, but I would like to know why rs

Re: superlifter design notes (OpenVMS perspective)

2002-07-30 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:00:21AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > To help explain why the backup and file distribution have such different > implementation issues, let me give some background. > > > This is a dump of an OpenVMS native text file. This is the format that > virtually all text

[patch] --link-dest

2002-08-02 Thread jw schultz
Updated to current cvs without the --exclude-from - patch. This patch allows specifying a --link-dest path similar to --compare-dest except that unchanged files are hard-linked to the --link-dest path instead of producing a sparse tree. --

[patch] exclude-from stdin

2002-08-02 Thread jw schultz
This patch causes --exclude-from and --include-from to read from STDIN when given - for a filename. This was formerly incorporated in my --link-dest patch. Patch against current cvs. -- J.W. SchultzPegasystem

Re: new rsync release needed soon?

2002-08-02 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:03:00PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: > Yes I think a new release is needed soon, but there's more patches than > that that should get in. A bunch of them have been posted and I was hoping > you were keeping track of them and would be putting more of them in. To put in my

Re: Rsync from windows to unix

2002-08-04 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 08:44:00AM -0700, S Peram wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to use rsync from Windows to Unix. > I've followed the directions on : > http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/rsync_pc1.html Start by reading the manpage. Look first in the GENERAL section where it lists the 6 (so

Re: new rsync release needed soon?

2002-08-04 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 12:50:04AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 31 Jul 2002, Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes I think a new release is needed soon, but there's more patches than > > that that should get in. > > We need to weigh up getting functions in vs making steps small e

Re: performance problems while building the filelist...

2002-08-16 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:08:39PM +0200, Scheufen Stephan wrote: > Hello Rsync PRO´s, > > i´m satisfied with the rsync features...never seen a better replication tool!! >;-) > > But i have some problems...:-( > OK, here me installation: > - one Compac Proliant ML370 with cached SCSI HDDs a

Re: Files Loosing Ownership after rsync

2002-08-21 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:57:11AM -, Mahesh Chandra Patil wrote: > > Hello, > > Greetings to all. > > I am a newbie to rsync. I have a problem,for which I could not > find the solution in Rsync Faq o Matiq. Even google couldnt give > any solution. So finally I am here.. > > Currently

Re: Filenames with blanks

2002-08-25 Thread jw schultz
e you are using gnu find. With gnu find and bash this will work: COM='$(find '$src_dir' -mtime -'$days' -type f -printf "\'%p\' ")' Just make sure the quotes get through intact. This gets find to put quotes around each pathname and $() keeps them

Re: [patch] read-devices

2002-08-30 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:49:21PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: > Oh, syncing from a pipe on one end to a file on the other end is a > different story. That I can see a use for. However, it's not really what > the rsync command is designed for; it's designed for handling lots of > files. I would

Re: rsync error: unexplained error

2002-09-01 Thread jw schultz
To start with, use the carrage return and don't send html. This sounds like a problem that was fixed a few months ago. You might try searching archives. Upgrade to current (2.5.5) or the CVS tree. And please send any changes as diff -u against up-to-date CVS (see diff(1) and patch(1)) encoded

Re: rsync error: unexplained error

2002-09-02 Thread jw schultz
it is probably safest to attach them as text/plain if can't be sure what your mailer will do to whitespace. (i see you use Notes and Outlook) > > Dave > > > >

Re: [patch] for rsync

2002-09-03 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 05:00:02PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > JW, > > I pushed everything to a LINUX box and did the diff again this time with the > -bur option. > It does look significantly different. I think I've got below what you are > looking for, so I am > resending it to [EMAIL

Re: Crashes maybe due to: "error writing 4 unbuffered bytes"

2002-09-08 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 01:08:48PM -0700, Trevor Marshall wrote: > I have been trying to implement Mike's tutorial on backup with rsync, but > my server has kept crashing in the middle of the rsync transfer. > > I am backing up /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdc1 on a SuSe v 7.3 i386 box > > Server cras

Re: Hardware - no way -Re: Crashes maybe due to: "error writing 4 unbuffered bytes"

2002-09-08 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:03:05PM -0700, Trevor Marshall wrote: > Dear JW, > I spent hours checking and upgrading my hardware. There is nothing wrong > with it. It is a 'mature' Pentium-II 400MHz system that has been running my > servers WITHOUT ANY CRASHES for nearly 2 years now 24/7 > > Listen

Re: Sorry to waste your time - I will stop using rsync

2002-09-08 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:29:33PM -0700, Trevor Marshall wrote: > Jw, > Respectfully, > My experience is to shy away from any piece of software which the > developers feel is inviolate > > Although often the hardware and kernel certainly could be at fault it is > wrong to assume they are, and su

Re: security issues

2002-09-10 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:07:48PM +0200, Bruno LEDOUX wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about security with rsync which I want to use to do > automatic backups of a cvs tree. I have two options: the first one is to use > rsync with ssh but it requires me to type in my ssh password each time an

Re: Suggest Rsync Performance Improvements

2002-09-11 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 04:55:30PM +1000, Damon Atkins wrote: > > 1. Large 1 MB I/O, all reads and write to file systems > 1MB (can use setvbuf to do this with out coding) > e.g a awk programme doing 8K I/O to read 2GB file > took 16 min, a perl programme doing 1MB I/O took 16 > seconds. Large

Re: Image (clone) of hard drive using rsync

2002-09-11 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:35:04AM +, Theo van der Merwe wrote: > Is it possible to make a complete image (or clone) of your hard drive (FAT > or NTFS) using rsync? No. rsync will copy the files and directory structure. It doesn't copy the filesystem/partition. Further, rsync runs under c

Re: logging on client side on NT

2002-09-13 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:15:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to log whatever happens with rsync on client side when it runs > with Cygwin on NT4. > First, I just did a redirect of the screen output to a log-file: > > rsync -rtv --delete --modify-window=2 --stats /cyg

Re: Feature request: Sync Mac OS resource forks and metadata on Mac OS X

2002-09-18 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 05:59:58PM +0200, Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > > Jason Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mac OS X provides support for the Mac file system resource forks and > > > mac specific metadata (e.g., creator and file type). Most Unix > > > applications ignore this informati

Re: chroot and wrong user names

2002-09-19 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:02:18AM +0100, Riq Willitts wrote: > I am using rsync 2.5.5 running as a daemon on the destination system, which > is SuSE Linux 8.0. The source system is SuSE 7.3, also with rsync 2.5.5. > With the default 'use chroot = true' and not using --numeric-ids, I get > the

Re: [patch] SLP support (+ question)

2002-09-22 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:38:14AM +1000, Brad Hards wrote: > The attached patch adds "first draft" support for service location protocol, > using OpenSLP (http://www.openslp.org). This allows you to automagically > discover all the rsync servers on your network (which is defined in terms of

Re: rsync to a symlink directory

2002-09-23 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:03:12PM -0700, Gwendal Stevanazzi wrote: > > Here is the structure of my servers : > > Source : > > /home/test1/link_dir > sub_dir1 > file1 > file2 > ... > sub_dir2 >

Re: rsync to a symlink directory

2002-09-24 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:28:02AM -0700, Gwendal Stevanazzi wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, jw schultz wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:03:12PM -0700, Gwendal Stevanazzi wrote: > > > > > > Now I want to update file1. > > > If I run the command > >

Re: 2.5.5-1 rsync hangs

2002-09-24 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:29:40PM +0900, Anthony Heading wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 01:06:22PM -0700, Sudheer Tumuluru wrote: > > > > I am having the same problem with rsync 2.5.5-1. I am > > trying to rsync a couple of short text files between a linux server and > > Win2k Professional

Re: rsync to a symlink directory

2002-09-24 Thread jw schultz
[edited] On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:52:58PM -0700, Gwendal Stevanazzi wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here's the script: > > rsync dira/file dirc > > This script runs ok > But here is a script which doesn't work for me: > rsync -R dira/file ../dest/ The culprit appears t

Re: Question on "base directory"

2002-10-05 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 12:41:55AM +0200, Gregor Waluga wrote: > Hi, > > I've read the manpage, but I got a simple question on the expression "base > directory" used in the "exclude patterns"-section. > When I synchronize ie: > > rsync -avzu /home/gregor/ notebook:/home/gregor/ > > and want to

Re: Value too large for defined data type

2002-10-09 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:26:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy, > > I am just starting to use rsync and now have an rsync > server set up to back up our various machines. I recently > started getting an error that is confusing and I can't > find info documented on it. I searched the n

Re: Value too large for defined data type

2002-10-10 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:50:32PM +0200, David Bigagli -Bokis- wrote: > > Would it help to build with SunPro cc compiler using the -xarch=v9 > option? This will build a native 64 bit binary. Not likely. If i correctly diagnosed his problem it is the syscall/library interface and datatypes. Th

Re: multiple sessions to same destination

2002-10-10 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:09:16PM -0700, Derek Simkowiak wrote: > > Yeah, you're fine, as long as, as you say, no two sessions are accessing > > the same objects. Even then, rsync handles it fairly well... > > Can you elaborate on this? > > Below is message I sent a while ago, but

Re: Problem with checksum failing on large files

2002-10-14 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:45:44PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > In conclusion, a blocksize of 700 with the current 48bit signature blocksum > has an unacceptable failure rate (>5%) for any file larger than 100M, unless > the file being synced is almost identical. > > Increasing the blocksize wi

Re: Problem with checksum failing on large files

2002-10-14 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:32:42PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:13:50AM -0700, Derek Simkowiak wrote: > > > My theory is that this is expected behavior given the check sum size. > > > > Craig, > > Excellent analysis! > > I was a bit concerned about his maths

Re: Problem with checksum failing on large files

2002-10-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:25:00AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:22:36AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:45:44PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > [...] > > > Does the first pass signature block checksum really only use 2 byte

Re: Older directory overwrites newer file with -u flag

2002-10-15 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:38:29PM -0400, Karl Wieman wrote: > If I remove a directory 'foo' and create a file foo, and then do a resync from a >remote server > > with the -u flag, the file will be replaced by the directory, even though > > the file is newer than the directory. Is this a bug,

Re: synchronizing part of a file

2002-10-15 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:20:30PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to synchronize a part of the source file with a part of the > destination file. In detail I would like to >- synchronize a file on a remote host from line "n" onwards with the > file content on the

Re: Optimizations and other questions for rsync

2002-10-16 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:00:02PM -0400, Farid Shenassa wrote: > 1. is there any computational or disk IO difference between the rsync client > and server (the one that does just the checksum on the block, vs the one > that does rolling checksum). Given that I do not have as much cpu on the > VO

Re: Question on a long filename

2002-10-18 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:58:29AM -0700, Jennifer Lu wrote: > > Hi, > > How many characters of the file name can be transferred thru rsync? > 255? I am running rsync on solaris 5.8 machine, I got the following > error messages: > > ERROR: dsync: dsync1:/import/data/ to dsync2:/import/data2/ > m

Re: Any work-around for very large number of files yet?

2002-10-21 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:37:45AM -0500, Crowder, Mark wrote: > Yes, I've read the FAQ, just hoping for a boon... > > I'm in the process of relocating a large amount of data from one nfs server > to another (Network Appliance filers). The process I've been using is to > nfs mount both source and

Re: pruning old files

2002-10-21 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:34:42AM +0200, Michael Salmon wrote: > On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 09:46:36 AM +0900 Shinichi Maruyama > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +-- > | > | jw> In the past i found that using find was quite good for this. > | jw> Use touch to create a file with a mod_time just

Re: Feature Request: break hardlinks before metadata changes

2002-10-24 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:40:48AM -0400, Tripp Lilley wrote: > > >From TODO: > > We can also have the case where there are links to a file that are > not in the tree being transferred. There's nothing we can do about > that. Because we rename the destination into place after writing, >

Re: Using rsync for backup trashes st_atime

2002-10-24 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:16:26PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > Hi! > > I've just tried to do a backup of a machine with rsync. While doing this > (I was reading emails:-) I noted that mbox for mbox, I had no longe new > mails, but I've never read off these mailboxes lately... This seemed to

Re: Using rsync for backup trashes st_atime

2002-10-24 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:19:40PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-24 04:04:14 -0700, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:16:26PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > I think &#x

Re: Human Readable

2002-10-24 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:55:58PM +0200, Philipp W. wrote: > Hi! > > I'mn quiet new to rsync... i'm usig it for making bakups over internet. > What i'd like is to add som other output-possibilities... Boy, everybody and his brother are doing this now! > What's in my interest is, how many bytes

Re: Mutliple backups into a signle dir

2002-10-24 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:22:05AM +0200, Milan Kr?m?? wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:03:56PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > You might look at dirvish http://www.pegasys.ws/dirvish It > > manages a complete rotation schedule with images preserved > > for various periods.

Re: rsync ownership problem via ssh?

2002-10-24 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:29:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using rsync to sync filesystems from one Solaris > machine to another at a remote site. Everything sync's > fine, except for the ownership preservation. The > permissions all get transferred correctly and so do all the > file

Re: rsync -e ssh does not work well

2002-10-24 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:44:38PM +0300, Kauko Heikkila wrote: > 1.From SuSe Linux Enterpise server to another one: > rsync -trvuz -e ssh file.wrk uname@servername:uname-html > works wierdly since file.wrk changes > to a file named uname-html in the user's "uname" home. It did as you told it. t

Re: rsync -e ssh does not work well

2002-10-25 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:38:03PM +0300, Kauko Heikkila wrote: > Thanks for the answer. I fully appreciate. > > And in a way I admit what you said, > but if you think of the command > > rsync -trvuz file.wrk uname@servername::uname-html > > what it does, then according to my logic > > rsync

Re: rsync -e ssh does not work well

2002-10-25 Thread jw schultz
Please put your comments either interleaved or at the end and quote the minimum. This is normal mailing-list netiquette per RFC. On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:33:54PM +0300, Kauko Heikkila wrote: > > One more, serious problem exists, since > when invoked from a w2000 laptop > (servername is still t

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