Verifying understanding of backup-dir vs compare-dest

Hello, Say one starts with creating an archive rsync work -> archive and periodically (below, i = 1 to N) does rsync --backup-dir=a_ work -> archive and rsync --compare-dest=archive work -> b_ Then suppose one wants to recover the work directory as it was a

Re: Batch mode scenario ("use case")

Matt wrote: >Suresh Govindachar wrote: > >> How about the following scheme? >> >> open /e/cmds/foo >> : >> >> >> discard lines till there is a match to some/path/projects/c_a >> >> keep lines till there is a match to a directory outside c_a >> Not

Re: rsync include partial files in list to send?

On 9/11/07, brad miele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am hoping to use rsync with the --remove-sent-files option. the sending > side of the transaction will very likely include files that are being > written to when rsync is run. will rsync include these partial files in > it's list? i want to avoi

rsync include partial files in list to send?

Hi, I looked as best I could and didn't see my question addressed (which doesn't mean it isn't), so apologies if this is in a faq and i missed it. i am hoping to use rsync with the --remove-sent-files option. the sending side of the transaction will very likely include files that are being w

Re: error in IPC Code (code 14) at main.c(669) [receiver=2.6.9cvs]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 03:41:48AM -0700, Suresh Kumar Pedamallu wrote: > rsync: pipe failed in do_recv: Too many open files (24) This is the error that caused the failure. Your system had too many open files on it for some reason, causing the pipe() system call to fail. ..wayne.. -- To unsubsc

error in IPC Code (code 14) at main.c(669) [receiver=2.6.9cvs]

Hi, I am using rsync 2.6.9 and recently I got a error with the setup. I searched in the forums but I couldn't find much clues on this. Once I restarted the rsync daemon and rerunning the job didn't gave any errors further. I also tried to reproduce the issue for much details. But I couldn't do tha