Merging excludes using ". FILE"

2004-04-26 Thread Wayne Davison
As I alluded to in an earlier email on the subject of excludes, I had the idea of allowing a merge idiom (think "#include" in C) inside rsync's current exclude/include system. The idea is simple -- use the prefix ". " (dot space) in front of a filename, and that file will be incorporated into the

rsync 2.6.1 released (including security note)

2004-04-26 Thread Wayne Davison
Hopefully the email to the announce list will show up soon. Until then, you can get a jump on the rest by checking out the rsync home page to read the announcement: http://rsync.samba.org/ It includes a security note about a fix that affects read/write daemons that are not using chroot. If

Re: [PATCH] --timelimit and --stopat

2004-04-26 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:20:07PM -0400, John Taylor wrote: > Upon a suggestion to improve the --timelimit patch, I have also added > a --stopat option. CVS now has an updated time-limit.diff patch in which I simplified the code quite a bit and tweaked the options a bit: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:MM

newbie question about using rsync for backups

2004-04-26 Thread Ryan Kilgore
Hi all, I'm wanting to make weekly backups of host qin to host elijah. I set a crontab to run a script that effectually executes this rsync command: rsync -ave ssh --exclude-from=excludes.txt --delete / elijah:/home/backup/qin host qin is running gentoo linux with rsync version 2.5.6. host eli

rsync error

2004-04-26 Thread leo wong
does anyone use rsync as a backup server? i got the following error msg. please help building file list ... link_stat /mnt/nw/DATA2/POP/APPS : Input/Output error done delta transmission enabled total: matches=0 tag_hits=0 false_alarms=0 data=0 wrote 17 bytes read 20 bytes 2.74 bytes/sec total siz

Re: Rsync Error..

2004-04-26 Thread Naveen Babu
In my case rsync -e rsh 66.123.34.123:/etc/services just works fine. I understand that now i dont have to use rsync-path. My whole purpose of using rsync is to backup a directory from source machine to destination machine. In order to accomplish that i gave the command at the source machine: r

Re: Rsync Error..

2004-04-26 Thread Tim Conway
I gave the example, and understood that you'd used it. If instead of " rsync -e rsh --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync 66.123.34.123:/etc/services ", you used "rsync -e rsh 66.123.34.123:/etc/services" and it worked, then you don't need the --rsync-path= option. If however, the second example ab

Re: Rsync Error..

2004-04-26 Thread Naveen Babu
Tim Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: assuming you replaced "hostwithrsync" with "66.123.34.123", you're in. Yes, i replaced it with the ip address. I have a question about rsync-path option. The command I am giving at the source machine is: rsync -aznrbe rsh /sourcepath 66.123.34.123:/desti

Re: Rsync Error..

2004-04-26 Thread Tim Conway
assuming you replaced "hostwithrsync" with "66.123.34.123", you're in. It's fine that your /etc/services is a symlink... the important thing is that you can see it with rsync over rsh. Use the rsync-path option, and enjoy the tool. Tim Conway Unix System Administration Contractor - IBM Global Se

Re: Rsync Error..

2004-04-26 Thread Naveen Babu
Hello Tim, Sorry for the late response. I was out of town for weekend. Ok, first I tried rsync -e rsh --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync hostwithrsync:/etc/services I got the following the output: -rw-r--r-- 73490 2003/10/27 09.26.50 services

Re: Rsync Error..

2004-04-26 Thread Tim Conway
Jim: first - glad to see you're able to reach the group again. Second: In later messages, he'd found and fixed true rsh - to where "rsh remotehost which rsync" returned "/usr/local/bin/rsync", and still got the timeout on actual rsyncs. I sent an enormous number of possible outputs he could get

RE: rsync-2.6.1pre-1 hang

2004-04-26 Thread Terry
> The backtrace you cite looks to be impossible (nested calls to > send_file_list() can't happen), so I assume that the list > is not valid > for some reason. I haven't seen such a hang as you > describe. Have you > delved into this any further? Well what I did after my last post was recompili