Re: Secure Remote Backups (using SSH) - Using a backup user account

2005-03-21 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-03-21 17:23:28 -0500, Michael Haertjens wrote: > you go that route, you will want to run a script like the following to make > sure that the only commands the root login will accept are to run rsync: Check out rrsync.pl :-) Best regards Martin PS: And learn to quote, please. --

RE: rsync practical size limit?

2005-03-21 Thread Crowder, Mark
David, I've used rsync to transfer multiple terabytes when replacing or consolidating storage.  The practical limit is not the overall size, but there are a couple that will crop up: 1.    This is alluded to in the FAQ, but the relationship between amount of memory on the hosts and th

Re: Secure Remote Backups (using SSH) - Using a backup user account

2005-03-21 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-03-21 21:13:38 +, David Nicholls wrote: > I don't want to 'auto' ssh using the root account, for obvious reasons, > I also do not think it a good idea to change the default permissions on > the MailDir directories! > > I just wondered if some kind soul would give me a pointer! Obviousl

Re: exclude problem

2005-03-21 Thread Lars Nordin
Thanks! That seems to do the job. On Monday 21 March 2005 05:05 pm, John Van Essen wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Lars Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have looked on the mailing lists and through rsync documentation but those > > still haven't solved my problem. I may be calling rsync inco

Re: Secure Remote Backups (using SSH) - Using a backup user account

2005-03-21 Thread Michael Haertjens
Hello David, Though the information here is on a BSD web site, it should apply equally to any OS. http://www.bsdnews.org/01/rsync_backups.php And if you do end up needing a root login for some reason, look into the "forced-commands-only" alternative for PermitRootLogin in /etc/ssh/sshd_conf

Re: exclude problem

2005-03-21 Thread John Van Essen
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Lars Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have looked on the mailing lists and through rsync documentation but those > still haven't solved my problem. I may be calling rsync incorrectly but the > problem I have is that the exclude file seems to be ignored. My final goal is >

Re: Patch: Offline transfer mode

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Traugott
In offline mode, with only one destination, each batch file is cumulative -- there is no sequence. Lose one, just regenerate it. Old batches are useless -- don't keep them laying around and you won't be tempted to try to apply them again. (It might be perfectly safe to always say 'rsync --read-b

Secure Remote Backups (using SSH) - Using a backup user account

2005-03-21 Thread David Nicholls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi There. I am very sorry for the complete noob question :) I was looking at the basic remote rsync backup artical at: http://servers.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/04/0346256&tid=119&tid=47&pagenum=1 I am backing up various servers, both locally and re

exclude problem

2005-03-21 Thread Lars Nordin
I have looked on the mailing lists and through rsync documentation but those still haven't solved my problem. I may be calling rsync incorrectly but the problem I have is that the exclude file seems to be ignored. My final goal is to replicate an entire host, excluding some files that contain sp

FW: rsync practical size limit?

2005-03-21 Thread David Saunders
I'm a heavy user of rsync for what sometimes amounts to more than 175GB of data. Is there a practical size limit for rsync? -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Patch: Offline transfer mode

2005-03-21 Thread Keith Lofstrom
The batch and offline transfer methods sound useful. Question: what happens if batch files are missing, or applied out-of-sequence? Humans are not as accurate as TCP. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits ---

Rsync, cygwin and seemingly random deleting of files problem

2005-03-21 Thread Toby D. Watson
Dear All, I am running Rsync (2.6.3) on Windows Server 2003 via Cygwin, performing a pseudo-local sync (t: is a mapped NAS). The Rsync command I am using is below, but I am having a problem whereby certain files are being deleted, seemingly at random. I am using the --delete flag. These files a

Re: Patch: Offline transfer mode

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Traugott
Another followup to myself... ;-) On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 08:46:20PM -0800, Steve Traugott wrote: > because the entire protocol goes through write_fd(), I couldn't just > shut off all traffic there, but instead had to redirect unwanted traffic > to /dev/null higher up, in send_files(). A more gr