Re: [patch] Make robust_rename() handle EXDEV.

2004-02-22 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:21:35PM +0900, Shinichi Maruyama wrote: > With --backup --backup-dir=... , rsync sometimes says some > errors like "No such file or directory". > I made a little fixes. Much appreciated. I've checked this in. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options:

Re: [patch] Make robust_rename() handle EXDEV.

2004-02-22 Thread Shinichi Maruyama
wayned> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:28:20AM -0500, Jason M. Felice wrote: wayned> > All callers of robust_rename() call copy_file() if EXDEV is received. wayned> > This patch moves the copy_file() call into robust_rename(). wayned> wayned> Seems like a good simplification. I did a refinement pass

Re: open files

2004-02-22 Thread Tarun Karra
hi, > what effect does SAMBA have on RSYNC if do mount and rsync the windows > folder. >Samba has no affect. SMB does :-) The SMB file sharing protocol defintely >passes any locking issues onto the SMB client (Linux in your case) - so if >it's locked under Windows, then it's locked under Linux.

Re: open files

2004-02-22 Thread Tarun Karra
hi, >Well apart from being kludge, there is some merit to the Windows solution. >I'm not sure what exactly you are referring to with "backup semantics", but >I've understood ntbackup.exe on W2k or newer uses reparse points for backing >up files. That way it is not only capable of reading files that

Re: open files

2004-02-22 Thread Jason Haar
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:34:48PM -0800, Tarun Karra wrote: > it's ok even if I have to host a rsync server on windows machine and set > it up to backup the open files preliminarily,, The most important thing for > me is *backing up open files*. Then you should definitely look into doing

Re: open files

2004-02-22 Thread Tarun Karra
hi , >Just a note. I think the original poster was *mounting* the Win2K box from >Linux. it's ok even if I have to host a rsync server on windows machine and set it up to backup the open files preliminarily,, The most important thing for me is *backing up open files*. >As su

Re: open files

2004-02-22 Thread Jason Haar
Just a note. I think the original poster was *mounting* the Win2K box from Linux. As such, talking about Cygwin's attempts to use backup operators shouldn't help at all - as that's referring to running rsync *server* under Windows - it won't have any affect on how SMB passes locks to the SMB client

Re: Feature request: case insensitivity

2004-02-22 Thread Jason Haar
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:29:17AM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:58:25AM -0500, Ethan Tira-Thompson wrote: > > I sync files to a memory stick fairly frequently. The memory stick > > uses a basic FAT format, which kills case. What's more, on some > > platforms (Windows),

Re: open files

2004-02-22 Thread Jason M. Felice
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:13:33PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > Hi! > > I had a brief look sometime ago at hacking something like this into rsync, > but I didn't find a C API for reparse points. If you make progress, please > keep me (or rsync mailing list) posted! > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:2

Re: open files

2004-02-22 Thread Ville Herva
Hi! I had a brief look sometime ago at hacking something like this into rsync, but I didn't find a C API for reparse points. If you make progress, please keep me (or rsync mailing list) posted! On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:26:56PM -0500, you [Jason M. Felice] wrote: > > jason:: > > Win32 backup sem