data recovery and rsync, among other things

I've been trying to extract some of my clients' data from a flakey lustre filesystem, and as a result, took some time to write up a page about pulling data out of a semi-crashy filesystem. The page includes a variety of ways of doing so, those ways including but not being limited to rsync and a p

Re: Possible bug not deleting files [SOLVED]

Quoting Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, May 27 11:16: > > The latest nightly tar file (linked on the rsync web page) has all these > fixes applied (and an improved testsuite to catch problems like this in > the future). Just to let you know, I downloaded the latest nightly and it is work

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Re: Possible bug not deleting files

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:06:36PM -0700, Omen Wild wrote: > /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded \ > --exclude-from=/home/omen/.backup/rsnapshot \ > /home/ \ > /var/cache/rsnapshot/snapshots/daily.0/balrog/ This was fixed in the latest pre-release, via this pat

[Bug 2745] Configuration error with HAVE_REMSH

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Re: Preserving uid/gid on remote machine with non-root permission

Erik Jan Tromp wrote: Depending on the degree of complexity you're willing to play with, 2 projects come immediately to mind (there may be others, dunno): http://freshmeat.net/projects/fakeroot/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/pretendroot/ Thanks for the pointer. fakeroot seems to do what I was

symlinks and --compare-dest option

Title: Nachricht Hi all!   I want to sync/copy a tree from a remote system to my local computer. Let 's say they are completly synced. When I do   rsync remote.computer:/storage /new-storage --compare-dest=/ -a -v   As expected rsync does not copy the files but copies/recreate the symlinks

Re: Preserving uid/gid on remote machine with non-root permission

On Fri, 27 May 2005 16:22:52 +0200 David Hausheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to backup files to a remote machine on which I don't have > root permission, while preserving their uids/gids? I know that only the > super-user can set the owner and group of a file, so what I am actua

Preserving uid/gid on remote machine with non-root permission

Is there a way to backup files to a remote machine on which I don't have root permission, while preserving their uids/gids? I know that only the super-user can set the owner and group of a file, so what I am actually looking for is a tool that would store the actual uids/gids of all files that

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

On Fri 27 May 2005, dtra wrote: > when i try this, it says unable to find rsyncd.conf > nice -n 19 rsync -a --rsh="ssh -l remoteuser -c blowfish" > [EMAIL PROTECTED]::rsync_module/files /path/to/bak/ Wayne's point of saying "use a daemon" (to paraphrase a bit :-) is to eliminate use of ssh. By e

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

No daemon required when using ssh. So you would specify the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/webserver /path/to/bak/ (the --rsh parameter you specified is afaik correct) - Joost On Friday 27 May 2005 07:27, dtra wrote: > sorry, you're prolly tired of me by now > when i try this, it says unab

[Bug 2745] New: Configuration error with HAVE_REMSH

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2745 Summary: Configuration error with HAVE_REMSH Product: rsync Version: 2.6.4 Platform: All OS/Version: FreeBSD Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Compone