Re: compare questions

2003-08-18 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:59:38AM +0800, damian lee wrote: > And does It means I can copy the files from the old server, > and use the touch commend to set the modify time. No! That would _change_ the modify time. Simply copy them with the time preserved. Rsync can do that for you. ..wayne..

Re: compare questions

2003-08-18 Thread damian lee
Thanks for your answer. And does It means I can copy the files from the old server, and use the touch commend to set the modify time. So the rsync will not have to transfer those files all over again?? Damian - Original Message - From: "Wayne Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "damian le

Re: compare questions

2003-08-18 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:47:43PM +0800, damian lee wrote: > Is the modify date or it has it`s own database ??? There's no database -- it uses the modify time and the size (by default) as a quick check to determine if a file is the same or not. Keep in mind that you must tell rsync to maintain t

Re: Problems with RSync and Windows 2000

2003-08-18 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:33:51PM -0400, Ladd, Charles wrote: > Im trying to script an Rsync batch job to run multiple times a day to > back up to Windows 2000 Servers. The Synch works great, but at the end > of the job the command never exits. I think you'll find that the command has exited, but

Re: batch mode typo in rsync.1

2003-08-18 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:45:23PM +0100, Neil wrote: > rsync.1 has a typo _ instead of the correct - Thanks -- I've checked in a fix. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.

batch mode typo in rsync.1

2003-08-18 Thread Neil
rsync.1 has a typo _ instead of the correct - caused me 5 minutes head scratching output of> gendiff rsync-2.5.6 .orig --- rsync-2.5.6/rsync.1.orig2003-08-18 22:34:35.0 +0100 +++ rsync-2.5.6/rsync.1 2003-08-18 22:35:24.0 +0100 @@ -1089,9 +1089,9 @@ .nf -$ rsync --write_batc

Re: Inadequate error checking in rsync 2.5.5

2003-08-18 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:41:51PM -0700, David Norwood wrote: > > > Okay, with this patch I now get error messages, but it still creates > null > > > filled output files. I guess that is what you meant by "the behavior is > the > > > same". > > > That is correct. At the point in which we detect

Re: exit status 12 with large files

2003-08-18 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:26:50PM -0400, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > Hello. > > I use rsync version 2.4.6, protocol version 24 on a RH7.2 machine. The > purpose is mirroring a Red Hat repository. > > All works fine, *except* for really big files. ISO images (~650MB) are a > good example. Wh

Re: Inadequate error checking in rsync 2.5.5

2003-08-18 Thread David Norwood
> > Okay, with this patch I now get error messages, but it still creates null > > filled output files. I guess that is what you meant by "the behavior is the > > same". > That is correct. At the point in which we detect the > problem there isn't anything we can do to produce > good files. The m

Rsync Error on Make

2003-08-18 Thread MJH
I am receiving the following error on an HP UX machine on execution of make. make gcc -I. -I. -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W -I./popt -c lib/snprintf.c -o lib/snprintf.o lib/snprintf.c: In function `dopr': lib/snprintf.c:199: warning: signed and unsigned type in conditional expressi

Problems with RSync and Windows 2000

2003-08-18 Thread Ladd, Charles
Im trying to script an Rsync batch job to run multiple times a day to back up to Windows 2000 Servers. The Synch works great, but at the end of the job the command never exits. It just sits there is some weird hanging state. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you. -- To unsubscribe or change op

Re: --delete bug?

2003-08-18 Thread Wayne Davison
I checked in a fix for this bug (the skipping of --delete when sending "/" with -R enabled). I also fixed a couple other things at the same time: - Fixed the bug I found in the --exclude code with -R that allowed "." to be affected by an exclude (which would prevent all files in a director

exit status 12 with large files

2003-08-18 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
Hello. I use rsync version 2.4.6, protocol version 24 on a RH7.2 machine. The purpose is mirroring a Red Hat repository. All works fine, *except* for really big files. ISO images (~650MB) are a good example. Whenever I don't exclude *.iso, I get the following: ===

compare questions

2003-08-18 Thread damian lee
Hi there I am new to the list. Please tall me how the rsync work to compare two directorys when mirroring. Is the modify date or it has it`s own database ??? I was trying to mirror my ftp site to another server. But the data is too many and it`s too big ( around 4G ). And my bandwidth is tight. S