rsync hangs in cron (not SSH-problem)

2004-05-20 Thread Pascal Nobus
This is the case - mounted Inetpub's windows-webserver on /mnt/web1 /mnt/web2, etc. - rsync this to local dir: rsync -av --delete /mnt/web1 /mass/kuurne/day rsync -av --delete /mnt/web2 /mass/kuurne/day etc.. - when logged in, everything works (I do see some errors about no

two-way synchronization accross a firewall fails

2004-05-20 Thread Tim Harsch
machine O is outside firewall, machine I is inside (machine names changed to protect the innocent :-) firewall allows ssh connections if inititiated from I to O, but not if the other way. both machines have an /etc/rsyncd.conf of: [rt] path = /tmp/rsync_test comment = Test area O runs

Re: Rsync snapshot on Linux from Windows server

2004-05-20 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:12:38AM +, Philip Roche wrote: > I was also wondering why rsync appears to think the files are > completely different each time if preserve owner and group is > specified, and does not if they are omitted. Sounds like you're not running the rsync command as root. Th

Re: rsync creates wrong sized files

2004-05-20 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:21:56AM +0100, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote: > Every day this command leaves some wrong files in the tree Sounds like the rsync daemon you are contacting is running 2.6.1. If so, just remove the -R option and all should be well (it's not needed by the command you're using). A

Rsync snapshot on Linux from Windows server

2004-05-20 Thread Philip Roche
I've been trying to set up a script (inspired by Mike Rubel's scripts) to perform rotating snapshots of the users folders on a Windows server. The machine storing the snapshots is Linux. I have the Windows machine configured as an rsync server, with rsync 2.5.6 and cygwin 1.5.7-1, and the Linux

rsync creates wrong sized files

2004-05-20 Thread Dr A V Le Blanc
I'm having a pretty serious rsync bug, which I've submitted to the Debian bug system. But as the rsync maintainer there seems to be a bit slow in fixing problems, I thought perhaps I should report it here as well. I'm using rsync 2.6.2 on a Debian woody system, with libc 2.2.5. I have rsync runni