Re: help troubleshooting inconsistencies in back up sizes

2005-02-03 Thread John Van Essen
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, gaw zay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use this shell script to back up: > > for i in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z `seq 0 9`; do > /usr/local/bin/rsync -a -z -W --delete /mailhome/$i/ [EMAIL > PROTECTED]:/mailhome/$i > done > > question one

Rsync Include confusion

2005-02-03 Thread Kevin Smith
I am trying to understand the include/exclude functions of rsync...what I want to do is have a folder with appended files...such as thisfile.gif.bak I want rsync to include ALL *.*.bak files and skip over everything else...But thisfile.gif exist in the same folder as thisfile.gif.bak Can I exlude u

Re: Problems with rsync server over ssh client

2005-02-03 Thread Jeremy Hansen
On 2/3/05 2:56 PM, "Wayne Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:01:28PM -0800, Jeremy Hansen wrote: >> use --rsh="ssh -l username", that the rsync server is ignore my >> rsyncd.conf uid and gid directives. > > Correct. Normal users don't have unix permissions to cha

Re: Rsync and SSH on Windows

2005-02-03 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:37:03PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > The only way to accomplish what you're doing now > is to use the two separate commands you have already discovered. I hadn't noticed that you didn't specify -f in the ssh command to tell it to auto-background the port-forwarding ssh.

Re: Problems with rsync server over ssh client

2005-02-03 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:01:28PM -0800, Jeremy Hansen wrote: > use --rsh="ssh -l username", that the rsync server is ignore my > rsyncd.conf uid and gid directives. Correct. Normal users don't have unix permissions to change to another user, so rsync assumes that if you're not root (UID 0), you

Problems with rsync server over ssh client

2005-02-03 Thread Jeremy Hansen
I'm trying to use ssh on the client side, mainly because I want to authenticate rsync clients using LDAP. I'm having issues. It seems when I use --rsh="ssh -l username", that the rsync server is ignore my rsyncd.conf uid and gid directives. My goal is to create a "dropbox" repository for files w

Re: Selectively overriding --cvs-exclude option

2005-02-03 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:25:05PM -0500, William McKee wrote: > Looking to the documentation, it seems to me that if I put an --include > option before the --cvs-exclude option, I should be able to tell rsync > to sync those files. Manually specified --include/--exclude options always override th

help troubleshooting inconsistencies in back up sizes

2005-02-03 Thread gaw zay
Hello list, I'll first describe my set up: server1 : live server server2 : backup server3 : backup of the backup so the data set is copied in this order server1->server2->server3 they are not done at the same time so there would be no collisions. I use this shell script to back up: for i in a

Re: quick way to check that my local file system has NOT changed

2005-02-03 Thread Harish . Chakravarthy
Good question, I interested in knowing about possible options In the meantime, here is one way -  use find command with -newer attribute. -Harish - Message from israel Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:38:34 +0200 - To: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: quick way to che