Hi Philip I have just check and get anotehr ? at the end like ..p..? 5164 Canon/PCL Printer Driver Nl. v.6.85/winnt40/pcl6/iR9070XH.xp_
when I do a revert of the Canon folder I need to log in to the fsvs server. What does the ? stand for? best regards Steve ----------------original message----------------- From: "Philipp Marek" To: "steve caster" [email protected] CC: "users" [email protected] Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:10:34 +0200 (CEST) ------------------------------------------------- > Hello Steve! > >> we have the following setup in the field: >> >> windows server which sync to a linux server running fsvs. When setting up >> the server I did an fsvs check out using the root user (stupid me) therefore >> all files checked out have rootas user. >> >> Now the smb running on that server did a sync and changed the ownership to >> nobody. The files are the same. I found that the copy script not only looks >> at the file itself but also at the creation time. >> >> Is there a way I can revert to the original files, without having to >> download the original file from the server? > If *only* the meta-data has changed (mtime, owner, group, or mode), > FSVS should see this, and show the files with only meta-data changes > (so no "C"): > > r...@cacao:/etc # ls -la passwd ; fsvs st -v passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1641 2. Aug 08:57 passwd > ...... 1641 passwd > r...@cacao:/etc # touch passwd ; chown 1.2 passwd ; fsvs st -v passwd > .tp... 1641 passwd > > Furthermore a "revert" will use the local information to fix the meta-data: > > r...@cacao:/etc # fsvs revert passwd ; ls -la passwd > Reverting to revision 26: > .m.. 1641 passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1641 2. Aug 08:57 passwd > > (This shows that meta-data was fixed, ie. the previous status.) > > >> Second Q: >> >> can I move a local copy from one client to another client? I mean, can I >> copy the /etc/fsvs and /var/spool/fsvs folder + the data from 1 client to >> another? We are talking over +100 GB of data. > Well, copying /etc/fsvs and /var/spool/fsvs should work, too. > There's nothing host-specific there (at least if BDB is byte-order compatible > etc.) > > The "normal", suggested way would be to copy the data with whatever means > (tape, harddisk, rsync, scp, tar | netcat, etc.), and doing > fsvs urls .... > fsvs sync-repos > > to get a clean filelist in the new working copy. > > This is mostly time-bound by the number of files, as FSVS unfortunately > has to query the repository in two ways to get the filesize *and* the original > meta-data. > > > Regards, > > Phil > > > -- > Versioning your /etc, /home or even your whole installation? > Try fsvs (fsvs.tigris.org)! > > > ------------------------------------------------------ http://fsvs.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=3928&dsMessageId=2647449 To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [[email protected]].
