Re: Excluding old files

2004-11-15 Thread Dan Pritts
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:32:18PM -, John Oyler wrote: > I would like a feature in rsync to exclude old files, say, by a specified > number of days. > Has anyone patched rsync at any time to provide this feature? You could do something like this: find /blah -mtime +30 > /tmp/exclude.list.$$

Re: rsync being remotely nice?

2004-11-15 Thread Dan Pritts
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:13:31AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 01:08:46PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: > > My idea would be to use "nice rsync" instead of "rsync" remotely, to > > backup servers that are under heavy load... > > I tried using --rsync-path='nice rsync' and it

Re: File list out of rsync.

2004-11-15 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:21:21AM +1100, Daryl Sayers wrote: > If I do not use -v I get nothing printed to stdout. ... unless you use --log-format. This causes rsync to output what files are transferred on stdout. You can have it output just file names using "%f". Alternately, you might like t

Excluding old files

2004-11-15 Thread John Oyler
I would like a feature in rsync to exclude old files, say, by a specified number of days. Has anyone patched rsync at any time to provide this feature? Thanks John Oyler -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~

Problem with --backup and deleting a directory: Two directories created

2004-11-15 Thread Johannes Kastl
Hello everyone, Im kinda new to rsync and this list, so if there are any errors in my reqest, please tell me. I want to use rsync to make a backup of a diretory, and use the --backup option. My script looks like this: rsync -ab --suffix=-`date -Iminutes` --backup-dir=rsync_backup --delete --r

several errors with irregular pathnames

2004-11-15 Thread Eric van Blokland
Title: Message I’ve written a GUI for using rsync on windows machines for third-party use. The project has reached a beta state and is now being tested in live situations. However, during these tests, I’ve encountered some odd behavior with specific pathnames.   For the record: I’m curre