Is there any option to check the synchronization is going on ?

2005-09-11 Thread Lakshminarayanan Radhakrishnan
Wayne, Is there any option to check whether the synchronization is going on between machine A and machine B  ? Requirement is,  I have to check/monitor is there any synchronization takes place between A and B, if not, then only i have to allow the machine A to be rebooted by the User. tha

Possibility of merging rsync and tar

2005-09-11 Thread Matt McCutchen
Hey rsync people, Here's a really radical idea and a possible future direction for the rsync project to explore. It occurs to me that tar and rsync are closely related in their purposes. "tar -c (blah) | tar -x" can be used to copy files; rsync's setup with a sender process and a receiver proces

Re: rsync problem with ssh

2005-09-11 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:57:41PM +0800, Reddragon Wang wrote: > rsync -az -e "ssh -l user" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/sql.gz /data/sql.gz That command duplicates the -l option to ssh -- you don't need to manually specify the "-l user" option when you use the "user@" prefix. > It would stop t

Re: rsync 2.6.6 : Possible comms failure during delete backup of large filesystem

2005-09-11 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:39:39PM +1000, Mark Inkley wrote: > You will note, that I am using 2.6.6, previously I used 2.6.2 which > had the same issues. Is the version on each machine 2.6.6? If the remote version is older than 2.6.4 then rsync cannot use its keep-alive protocol to try to keep th