Two Questions

2005-06-21 Thread Nathan Bullock
I have looked for answers to these two questions on Google, rsync mailing lists, and of course the rsync man page but seem to be coming up blank. First: What is the advantage of using the rsync daemon vs just rsync over ssh? I am hoping for a link to a webpage that details these differences. Seco

Re: logging

2005-06-21 Thread sc0ri0n
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 19:36 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:30:23PM -0400, sc0ri0n wrote: > > I simply would like to have a list of transferred files. However, > > from wht I understand, in the way we use rsync, there is no daemon or > > any rsync server at targets. > > T

Re: logging

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:30:23PM -0400, sc0ri0n wrote: > I simply would like to have a list of transferred files. However, > from wht I understand, in the way we use rsync, there is no daemon or > any rsync server at targets. The best way to get the list of transferred files in that case is to

Re: logging

2005-06-21 Thread sc0ri0n
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:29 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:55:29PM -0400, sc0ri0n wrote: > > I do not see a parameter to specify a log file. Why would that be? > > That all depends on what you're expecting. See the rsyncd.conf manpage > for how to make the daemon log to

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > The idea is that each machine keeps a transcript of what it has (or > had), and generates a list of changes locally. If the master server maintained a list of the files that were changed, the mirroring systems could use the --files-

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:14:29PM +0100, Mark Thornton wrote: > Rsync appears not to use its difference mechanism for transmitting > this list. Where the percentage of files changed is small, rsync might > be a great deal faster if it did transmit this list in the same way as > regular files. Yea

[Bug 2810] Add support for nodump flag

2005-06-21 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2810 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-06-21 14:41 --- Created an attachment (id=1283) --> (https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=1283&action=view) fgetflags.c from e2fsprogs Hmm, I just had a look at this (I am usi

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Andrew Shewmaker
On 6/21/05, Wesley Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21 Jun 2005, at 11:49, Wayne Davison wrote: > > No, they've not talked about what they're doing here. It would be > > very > > interesting to hear their thoughts on a utility that worked better > > with > > large numbers of files. One thing

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Mark Thornton
Wayne Davison wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:18:13PM -0600, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: I was wondering if H. Peter Anvin or Nathan Laredo had expressed their needs to the rsync developers? No, they've not talked about what they're doing here. It would be very interestin

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Wesley Craig
On 21 Jun 2005, at 11:49, Wayne Davison wrote: No, they've not talked about what they're doing here. It would be very interesting to hear their thoughts on a utility that worked better with large numbers of files. One thing that I had thought to look into at some point is a way to monitor t

Re: --exclude-from options

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:48:35PM -0700, Aleksey Zakharov wrote: > I have a directory /source/ which contains additional directories a, b, c. > In addition /source/ directory contains some db.* files that I dont want to > backup. The tricky part is that subdirectories /source/a, /source/b and >

Re: using rsync on files that are being written to

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:35:32PM -0600, lamad wrote: > I know people who shutdown the services on their *nix box before > backing up with rsync. this is to avoid accidentily backing up files > that are being written to, which might result in a corrupt backup of > that file. > > is this even a c

Re: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed.

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:01:13PM +0300, Samir Noshy wrote: > Couldn't get address for your host (10.0.8.53) This error is coming from the remote shell -- you need to figure out how to fix it. One way to start is to run rsync with two -v options, note the remote-shell command it is running, and

Re: Exclude file type

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 04:28:52PM -0400, Beach Computers wrote: > Is it possible to exclude a file type for a specific sync? Do you mean something like --exclude="*.exe" ? > Also, we had an issue where rsync locked mail files during copying. > Any way to avoid it [on an MS Windows system]? Rsyn

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Andrew Shewmaker
On 6/21/05, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:18:13PM -0600, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: > > I was wondering if H. Peter Anvin or Nathan Laredo had expressed their > > needs to the rsync developers? > > No, they've not talked about what they're doing here. It would

Re: rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28 - hosts allow dows not work

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 07:40:23AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > DNS is working for I can do a NSLOOKUP on the hostname and it > resolves. Yes, but can you do an nslookup on the IP and get the hostname? If not, rsync won't accept it. There are several options that will fix this: - Fix the D

[Bug 2810] Add support for nodump flag

2005-06-21 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2810 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-06-21 09:20 --- Created an attachment (id=1282) --> (https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=1282&action=view) Very preliminary nodump support Here is a patch that might work wit

Re: linux kernel, git, and stateful sync

2005-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:18:13PM -0600, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: > I was wondering if H. Peter Anvin or Nathan Laredo had expressed their > needs to the rsync developers? No, they've not talked about what they're doing here. It would be very interesting to hear their thoughts on a utility that w