exclude this file #notes#

2002-01-09 Thread Harry Putnam
What is the necessary syntax to exclude a file named #notes# from an action? I've tried these without success: #* "#*" #notes# "#notes#" \#notes\#

Re: Ignoring symbolic links

2002-01-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Martin Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9 Jan 2002, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> man rysnc says point blank that without the -l flag symbolic links >> will be ignored. > > It also says that -a implies -l. Erk.. and so it does. The sad thing is I was over this ground in e

Dry-run option in rsync 2.5.1 on Solaris 2.6

2002-01-09 Thread Andrew Mak
Hello All, I am using the rsync-2.5.1 on Solaris (Sparc) 2.6. I encountered the following while trying to get a directory on two machine in sync. 1) copy the files /var/tmp/test-rsync/* from box1 to box2:/var/tmp/test-rsync/ 2) touch a file in box1:/var/tmp/test-rsync/ 3) in box1, type in

Re: Ignoring symbolic links

2002-01-09 Thread Martin Pool
On 9 Jan 2002, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > man rysnc says point blank that without the -l flag symbolic links > will be ignored. It also says that -a implies -l. -- Martin

Ignoring symbolic links

2002-01-09 Thread Harry Putnam
man rysnc says point blank that without the -l flag symbolic links will be ignored. -l, --links This tells rsync to recreate symbolic links on the remote system to be the same as the local system. Without this option, all symbolic links

Re: rsync-2.5.1 / popt patches

2002-01-09 Thread Martin Pool
On 7 Jan 2002, "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the default warning level, some of the failures are silent, but can > cause incorrect code to be generated. > > In particular, malloc() will be substituted for the built in alloca() > macro, unless Tru64 has the alloca.h header

Re: rsync for NCR MP-RAS

2002-01-09 Thread Martin Pool
On 9 Jan 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Dave, > It works now. Thanks a lot. > Is there any benchmark comparision of transfer rates between ftp, rcp or > rsync. Thanks again. http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/tech_report/ rsync is most useful if there is already an older version of the file

Re[2]: Error message when a file moves in the middle

2002-01-09 Thread Rusty Carruth
Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:55:24AM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: > > Can I make rsync suppress this sort of error > > message, so that these messages don't show up in my mailbox? > > No, you'll have to post-process the output of rsync. Um, lets see - so

Re: rsync for NCR MP-RAS

2002-01-09 Thread Mike . Li
Hi Dave, It works now. Thanks a lot. Is there any benchmark comparision of transfer rates between ftp, rcp or rsync. Thanks again. Best regards, Mike Li Da

Re: Error message when a file moves in the middle

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:55:24AM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: > I have a nightly cronjob that uses rsync to back up the files on > another machine. Sometimes, I see error messages like this: > > send_files failed to open >usr/home/setsuna/Maildir/new/1010573771.27924.lina.aaanime.net: No such file

Re: rsync for NCR MP-RAS

2002-01-09 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:51:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > # cd /usr/local/bin > # rsync -a --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/ /tmp/ sclback:/tmp/ > UX:sh (sh): ERROR: /usr/local/bin/: cannot execute > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsyn

Error message when a file moves in the middle

2002-01-09 Thread Philip Mak
I have a nightly cronjob that uses rsync to back up the files on another machine. Sometimes, I see error messages like this: send_files failed to open usr/home/setsuna/Maildir/new/1010573771.27924.lina.aaanime.net: No such file or directory It seems that the file existed at the moment rsync st

Re: rsync for NCR MP-RAS

2002-01-09 Thread Mike . Li
But I still have some usage issues when I try to rsync /tmp from local server to /tmp on remote server (sclback). Pls advise. Thanks. on Remote server I did a rsync --daemon I cannot see an rsync processes when I do a ps -ef | grep rsync # ./rsync -a /tmp/ sclback:/tmp/ UX:sh (sh): ERROR: rsync: