Problems of preserving file owership and uid&gid options in rsyncd.conf

2004-08-31 Thread neo
Hi,   I am trying to transfer some files to a remote rsync server. I have to preserve the ownership of these files in the remote server for future possibility of copying them back.   The command I am using is: rsync -Cav /var/log/mp3log server2::var/log/mp3log   I have tried to add -o and -g

Re: rsync, backup, Macintosh files

2004-08-31 Thread D Andrew Reynhout
If your files are on the Linux fileserver and accessed by the OSX clients via Netatalk, then resource forks and Finder metadata are already being stored in a format that rsync understands. Just run rsync as usual. If you were running HFS+ on the Linux box (hey, why not?), *then* you'd need to do

Re: rsync using sudo via remote shell

2004-08-31 Thread Julian Cowley
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:08:09PM +0200, Achim St?bler wrote: > > rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /home/backup/.ssh/id_dsa" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ > > /backup/server/ > > > > Unfortunately I can't figure out how to tell rsync to execute its remote > > instance via su

Re: rsync crashing Redhat RHEL3.0 server

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 31 Aug 2004, Paul Haas wrote: > > To add swap, I use > mkdir /fullpathhere > dd if=/dev/zero of=/fullpathhere/swap1 bs=1M count=1024 > swapon /fullpathhere/swap1 You need a 'mkswap /fullpathhere/swap1' before the swapon... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://

Re: rsync crashing Redhat RHEL3.0 server

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Haas
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Paul Slootman wrote: Sounds like you're running out of memory (and swap as well). I'd suggest adding memory (adding more swap doesn't make it faster...) Adding swap space lets you figure out how much memory to buy, or ... or rsyncing smaller bits at a time if possible how much

Re: rsync crashing Redhat RHEL3.0 server

2004-08-31 Thread Daniel Berhane
Daniel Berhane/BMJ wrote on 31/08/2004 12:49:34: > Currently, the dedicated server has 1GBytes of RAM. I have done a > quick test and found out that it is using only 20% of the RAM while > the rsync crontab scripts are running. > > Thank you, > Daniel. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 31/08/2004

Re: rsync crashing Redhat RHEL3.0 server

2004-08-31 Thread Gavin Henry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I would be very grateful for your help. > > regards, > Daniel. Hi Daniel, This isn't a direct answer to your problem, but I have just done a basic perl script for rdiff-backup which could be changed for rsync (I will be doing this soon anyway), whi

Re: rsync crashing Redhat RHEL3.0 server

2004-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 31 Aug 2004, Daniel Berhane wrote: > We are using rsync to mirror around 10 of our websites from dedicated > server A to dedicated server B runing RHEL 3.0 and rysnc v2.6.3pre1 in a > daemon mode. I am using the following crontab script command on dedicated > server A: > > /usr/local/bi

rsync crashing Redhat RHEL3.0 server

2004-08-31 Thread Daniel Berhane
We are using rsync to mirror around 10 of our websites from dedicated server A to dedicated server B runing RHEL 3.0 and rysnc v2.6.3pre1 in a daemon mode. I am using the following crontab script command on dedicated server A: /usr/local/bin/rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /home/users/admin/publicKey-fo

rsync, backup, Macintosh files

2004-08-31 Thread reg
Hey! I have been given the task to mirror our fileserver's filesystem onto a secondary machine for redundancy. The first thing that came to mind was rsync, but now I have few questions as I am far from an expert on this matter. Our file server is running Debian Stable. We use Samba for our Window