link-dest or cp -al?

2006-04-08 Thread Max Kipness
I'm looking at updating some of my rsync scripts. For some time I've used the following inside a perl script to create my 30 day versions of backups: cp -al /backup/Current /backup/$yesterday_date rsync /source/ /Current/ --stats --recursive --archive --times --modify-window=1 --delete --ignore-e

how safe is it to rsync databases?

2006-04-08 Thread Veronica Hill
Hi people! I've been hunting around the web for an answer to this question for a couple of days now. I run the IT for a small company and i don't have a lot of experience with the type of C-ISAM database application that is used by my company, I deal with the general IT issues and call in s

Re: Help -- rsync Causing High Load Averages

2006-04-08 Thread Plugger
Thanks Wayne, Disk I/O is indeed the problem. This server is serving primarily images and video content, and when we try to rsync it, the disks cannot handle the load. That causes the apache processes to take longer. As a result of that, more apache process are spawned and waiting and it just snow

Re: logging problems

2006-04-08 Thread Julian Pace Ross
OK that was it!!! It is now working perfectly!! Well done & thanks for your patience :) Julian  On 08/04/06, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:08:25AM +0200, Julian Pace Ross wrote:> Hi Wayne, yes indeed there is something output before the 'rsync allowed > access.

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 3609] Bad behavior when there are IO errors on reading.

2006-04-08 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3609 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 3667] touch rsync configure output

2006-04-08 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3667 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|

Re: logging problems

2006-04-08 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:08:25AM +0200, Julian Pace Ross wrote: > Hi Wayne, yes indeed there is something output before the 'rsync allowed > access...' Ah, yes! The functions client_addr() and client_name() will sometimes output a log message. I've relocated those calls, and now the nightly ta

Re: logging problems

2006-04-08 Thread Julian Pace Ross
Hi Wayne, yes indeed there is something output before the 'rsync allowed access...' From my syslog: Apr  8 10:43:32 mail rsyncd[30508]: forward name lookup for julian.malta.com failed: Name or service not knownApr  8 10:43:32 mail rsyncd[30508]: connect from UNKNOWN (::: 192.168.10.50)Apr  8 1