Re: Patching?

2003-09-05 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 05:39:09PM -0500, Max Kipness wrote: > Hello, > > Hopefully this isn't too stupid of a question, but how do you patch > rsync with the --files-from patch? Don't. Just get CVS head which includes the --files-from option as well as a number of bug fixes and other enhancemen

Re: Another Question about include-from

2003-09-05 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 05:16:11PM -0500, Max Kipness wrote: > I know this subject has been discussed time and time again, but > everytime I think I've figured it out, I get stuck again. > > Here is the file structure, root is /: > > /var > /etc > /otherdir1 > /otherdir2 > > I want to rsync the

Re: prevent simultaneous copies?

2003-09-05 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:45:00PM -0400, Bob Bagwill wrote: > Would it be worthwhile to have an option to check for the presence of the > temporary dot file in the target directory and to warn the user that the > file is already being transfered? Something like: > --skip-in-progress-files ?

Strange errors

2003-09-05 Thread Max Kipness
After attempting to rsync the /var/spool/mail folder on a sendmail server, I got the following errors on some of the folders: chown var/spool/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Operation not permitted chown var/spool/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Operation not permitted chown var/spool/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Re: rsync on aix fails on large files bigger than 2gb

2003-09-05 Thread jw schultz
Sending this to me instead of the list usually gets it ashcanned. On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:16:09PM +0200, Christian Allan Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > Sounds like you are hitting the file size limit for your user check the > /etc/security/limits file on your system > > Hope this helps > > Good l

Patching?

2003-09-05 Thread Max Kipness
Hello, Hopefully this isn't too stupid of a question, but how do you patch rsync with the --files-from patch? Thanks, Max -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[Follup Up]: Another Question about include-from

2003-09-05 Thread Max Kipness
> I know this subject has been discussed time and time again, > but everytime I think I've figured it out, I get stuck again. > > Here is the file structure, root is /: > > /var > /etc > /otherdir1 > /otherdir2 > > I want to rsync the following: > > /var/spool/mail > but nothing else in /var

Another Question about include-from

2003-09-05 Thread Max Kipness
I know this subject has been discussed time and time again, but everytime I think I've figured it out, I get stuck again. Here is the file structure, root is /: /var /etc /otherdir1 /otherdir2 I want to rsync the following: /var/spool/mail but nothing else in /var or /var/spool/ /etc/httpd/ /et

prevent simultaneous copies?

2003-09-05 Thread Bob Bagwill
Would it be worthwhile to have an option to check for the presence of the temporary dot file in the target directory and to warn the user that the file is already being transfered? Something like: --skip-in-progress-files ? We usually transfer files via a cron job, but sometimes impatient peop

Re: new option suggestion '--backup-only'

2003-09-05 Thread Takeru KOMORIYA
Hi, On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 01:10:54 -0700 jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about adding now option '--backup-only' that means making > > backups only and don't change any destination files? > > > > (I posted similar patch a month ago, but the patch was made for > > nightly snapshot of

Re: new option suggestion '--backup-only'

2003-09-05 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:02:11PM +0900, Takeru KOMORIYA wrote: > Hi, > > How about adding now option '--backup-only' that means making backups > only and don't change any destination files? > > (I posted similar patch a month ago, but the patch was made for > nightly snapshot of 20020808, whi

new option suggestion '--backup-only'

2003-09-05 Thread Takeru KOMORIYA
Hi, How about adding now option '--backup-only' that means making backups only and don't change any destination files? (I posted similar patch a month ago, but the patch was made for nightly snapshot of 20020808, which was tooo old! Laugh at me...) I want to use rsync with LVM snapshot to make