Re: using rsync 3.0.0 CVS version

2007-01-29 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 06:33:19PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > Unfortunately the current CVS version (updated a couple of hours ago) > still hangs :( I found another potential hang scenario that could happen if the generator was having to wait for a new file list to arrive, but failed to tell th

Re: Cannot preserve uids and gids with AIX 5.3 w/rsync 2.6.2

2007-01-29 Thread Jeff Mundine
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:13 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:49:23PM -0600, Jeff Mundine wrote: > > Trying to get an AIX (5.3) to run rsync 2.6.2 as a daemon > > For any process to be able to affect a file's ownership, it must be > running as root. The default daemon confi

Re: Cannot preserve uids and gids with AIX 5.3 w/rsync 2.6.2

2007-01-29 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:49:23PM -0600, Jeff Mundine wrote: > Trying to get an AIX (5.3) to run rsync 2.6.2 as a daemon For any process to be able to affect a file's ownership, it must be running as root. The default daemon config runs each transfer process as user nobody. To change this, spec

Cannot preserve uids and gids with AIX 5.3 w/rsync 2.6.2

2007-01-29 Thread Jeff Mundine
First, yes, I have read the piece on chroot Trying to get an AIX (5.3) to run rsync 2.6.2 as a daemon I have tried every possibly usage to stop chroot, used no and false, as on the web it has showed up as either. Also dropped flag --numeric-ids when running Here is my test config--- #

Re: Question on --backup --backup-dir Switches For Incremental Backs

2007-01-29 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 1/29/07, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you want to store the new, changed files, use one or more --compare-dest options (one pointing at an old full backup, and an extra option for any intervening incrementals). This approach won't work because rsync will skip a file if it is i

Re: Timeout, server not responding

2007-01-29 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 1/29/07, Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wait a minute, can one use ssh at the transport and still connect to an rsync daemon module? Yes indeed! Rsync logs into the remote machine and executes a remote rsync process as in plain rsync over SSH, except it tells the remote

Re: Timeout, server not responding

2007-01-29 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Sunday 28 January 2007 05:49, Peter Matulis wrote: > I have several WinXP laptops which have been backing up to a FreeBSD 6.0 > server via rsync for a good while now. Now one laptop is giving me > grief. I am running cwRsync and invoking a remote rsync daemon via a > shell command: > > cmd /K "r

Re: problem with the delete option

2007-01-29 Thread Manuel Kissoyan
Hi Wayne, any idea what more i could do to know what is going on? Thanx in advance! - Original Message - From: "Manuel Kissoyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wayne Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "rsync list" Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 2:32 PM Subject: Re: problem with the del

Re: Question on --backup --backup-dir Switches For Incremental Backs

2007-01-29 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:34:39AM -0500, Blake Carver wrote: > I thought the --backup --backup-dir Switches were used to store just > the files that had changed in seperate directories, am I wrong on > that? It stores the old files that are being updated or deleted, moving (or copying) them befor

Re: using rsync 3.0.0 CVS version

2007-01-29 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 06:33:19PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > Just now, with various straces running, the sending process got to: The important process in the generator, since it controls all the work. (It is the first process on the receiving side, and forks the receiver). Attaching to the gen

Re: using rsync 3.0.0 CVS version

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sat 27 Jan 2007, Wayne Davison wrote: > I had not encountered this hang until today. The backtrace implicated > a problem in the wait_for_receiver() routine, and I figured out that > every now and then the io_flush() call could end up reading the last > available message from the receiver, giv

RE: Question on --backup --backup-dir Switches For Incremental Ba cks

2007-01-29 Thread Lancashire, Pete
take a look at rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ > -Original Message- > From: Blake Carver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 7:35 AM > To: rsync@lists.samba.org > Subject: Question on --backup --backup-dir Switches For Incremental > Backs > > > I current do s

Re: Question on --backup --backup-dir Switches For Incremental Backs

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 29 Jan 2007, Blake Carver wrote: > I current do some rsync backups with a command like so every day > > rsync -az -e ssh --stats --delete --exclude "stuff" / > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/ > > What I want to do is have some incremental backups in there in > subdirectories. So, for examp

Re: using rsync 3.0.0 CVS version

2007-01-29 Thread Shai
Sweet! I'll test it soon! On 1/27/07, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 08:43:56AM +0200, Shai wrote: > When I start the rsync, either with the rsync protocol or rsh, i found > that it'll start doing the rsync and just halt after a few hundred MBs > or even up to

Question on --backup --backup-dir Switches For Incremental Backs

2007-01-29 Thread Blake Carver
I current do some rsync backups with a command like so every day rsync -az -e ssh --stats --delete --exclude "stuff" / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/ What I want to do is have some incremental backups in there in subdirectories. So, for example, something like this on the remote server /home/use

rsync: mkstemp "/20070129_1012/.status.csv.IWS933" (in test) failed: No such file or directory (2)

2007-01-29 Thread Shai
Hi, --- + rsync -av --timeout 120 /home/20070129_1012/status.csv --port 5873 fileserver::test/20070129_1012/status.csv building file list ... done status.csv rsync: mkstemp "/20070129_1012/.status.csv.IWS933" (in test) failed: No such file or directory (2) sent 347 bytes received 38 bytes 770.

Re: rsync or other tool

2007-01-29 Thread Stuart Halliday
> with total size of 4MB. > My problem is that even with this short file list and such small sized > files, system leads to OUT OF MEMORY error within 2 hours killing my > application and many other applications! > Is there any solution? Should I look for some other tool which is > equivalent > for