Rsync 2.6.5 released

2005-06-01 Thread Wayne Davison
I have released rsync version 2.6.5. This is primarily a bug-fix release to squash some annoying problems that made it into the (feature-filled) release of 2.6.4, plus a few minor enhancements. Here is a list of the changes between 2.6.4 and 2.6.5: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/NEWS The

Re: RSync with File Compression

2005-06-01 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:20:45PM -0700, Kevin Day wrote: > There is a build of GZip (under Debian I think) that has an rsync > friendly option. This is useful if the files are compressed at the source. If you want only the destination side to be compressed, you'll need something beyond a stock

Re: Confusion regarding rsync vs. rsyncx

2005-06-01 Thread Dan Pritts
rsyncX is mac-to-mac only. Check out this page: http://www.quesera.com/reynhout/misc/rsync+hfsmode/ which should do pretty much what you want. On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:23:38PM -0400, Andrew Gideon wrote: > > We currently do backup using rsync amongst Linux and Solaris machines. > Modulo

re: RSync with File Compression

2005-06-01 Thread Kevin Day
Drew-   There is a build of GZip (under Debian I think) that has an rsync friendly option.  I have posted a patch for zlib to this newsgroup with code that makes zlib rsync friendly (along with some extra optimizations over the GZip implementation).   Take a look in the list archives and y

RSync with File Compression

2005-06-01 Thread Andrew Embury
Hello, Rsync is great, thanks to all who work on it. Does anyone have any good strategies for keeping the backups on the remote side compressed on disk? I'm under the impression that gzipping the files would not work as they would not be available to rsync in the uncompressed state for subsequent

Re: problems with telling rsync what to delete

2005-06-01 Thread Erik Romijn
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 10:54 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > > The exclude file list has filenames that are relative to the source > > directory supplied to rsync, so that would be correct. > > If the files are still be deleted, then you've got some kind of an error > in the contents of your --exclud