Re: rsync hangs when accessing through SSH (Leopard OS X)

2007-12-25 Thread Greg Loesch
Wayne Davison-2 wrote: > > Try some basic things: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] true > > The above command should not output anything at all (excepting an ssh > password prompt, if applicable). If there is any output on stdout, you > need to disable whatever is generating that output so that rsyn

Re: Help with complicated heirarchy exclude syntax

2007-12-25 Thread reader
Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then maybe you want to take only entirely numeric files (the exact > opposite of your original scenario) rather than all files except > entirely alphabetic ones. To do that, you should replace > --include='/nntp/**[!a-zA-Z]*' --exclude='/nntp/**' with

Re: rsyncd.conf exclude/include questions ??

2007-12-25 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 14:48 +0100, Vincent Blondel wrote: > Below what I configured in rsyncd.conf .. > > [all] > path = / > uid = root > gid = wheel > read only = true > include from = /home/rsync/etc/includes/rootfs > > /home/rsync/etc/includes/rootfs > > + /etc >

Re: Help with complicated heirarchy exclude syntax

2007-12-25 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 15:52 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > None of these seem to get to the wanted files: > > rsync -navv --prune-empty-dirs --exclude='/nntp/**/' \ > --include='/nntp/**[!a-zA-Z]*' --exclude='/nntp/**' \ > ~/projects/backup/rsync/nntp ./here/ The first filter needs t

Re: Help with complicated heirarchy exclude syntax

2007-12-25 Thread reader
Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> I've tried lots of combination of slashes and ** but it looks to me >> like those shown above should work. > > By analogy to the other case, those filter rules should exclude files > whose names are entirely alphabetic, and they seem to be doin

Re: Help with complicated heirarchy exclude syntax

2007-12-25 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 11:08 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >--include='/nntp/**[!a-zA-Z]*' --exclude='/nntp/**' > (run in dry run mode to study the output): :) > rsync -navv--include='/nntp/**[!a-zA-Z]*' \ > --exclude='/nntp/**' > ~/projects/backup/rsync/nntp ./

Re: Help with complicated heirarchy exclude syntax

2007-12-25 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> To get the rules to apply only in ~/News, anchor the patterns and use >> the ** syntax to match anything below ~/News. The patterns are matched >> against files' full paths from ~, but the first pattern accepts a >> non-n

Re: Pushing hard-linked backups

2007-12-25 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Matt McCutchen wrote: bOn Mon, 2007-12-24 at 18:34 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'd love for the remote backup to be encrypted locally so one could backup to a hostile host. That limits your options. one would think. For now, lets go with the plaintext push form of rsnapshot. as for e

rsyncd.conf exclude/include questions ??

2007-12-25 Thread Vincent Blondel
Hello, I get some troubles when rsyncing my FreeBSD 6.2 server from my iMac Leopard desktop. Below what I configured in rsyncd.conf .. [all] path = / uid = root gid = wheel read only = true include from = /home/rsync/etc/includes/rootfs /home/rsync/etc/i