Rsync version 3.0.4pre2 is now available for release testing. This is a
bug-fix release with the only "enhancement" being the adding of a way to
interact with an overly-restrictive server that refuses rsync's
behind-the-scenes use of the -e option.
I hope this will be the final pre-release prior
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 15:50 -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
> The point of my original message wasn't so much to get a
> workaround, as to suggest a new option for rsync that would make this
> kind of task easier.
Well, it looks like you really know what you want here. You're welcome
to create and us
Wayne Davison wrote:
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 08:26:47AM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
However if I reinstall Linux, and try to restore from the backup hard
drive, the owner permissions get all mixed up, I assume since the
numeric uids don't match up with the equivalent usernames any more.
One opti
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 08:26:47AM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
> However if I reinstall Linux, and try to restore from the backup hard
> drive, the owner permissions get all mixed up, I assume since the
> numeric uids don't match up with the equivalent usernames any more.
One option is to try userma
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 20:42 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> Just a note: I'd recommend also using -H to preserve hard links.
> Traditionally a unix / linux system will have many files hard-linked
> (although a quick check shows less than I expected).
Do you know of any case in which breaking hard li
> ... I am syncing between Windows and Linux and it was keeping the
> timestamps from the Windows side when copying to Linux. Even though
> both systems had the same system time, the timestamp was always one
> hour ahead of what it should be. ...
One hour, that sounds like Daylight Savings Time
On Sat 02 Aug 2008, Neil Gunton wrote:
> Hi, I use rsync to back up my Linux system to hard drive. I use the -av
> option, and it preserves uids. However if I reinstall Linux, and try to
Just a note: I'd recommend also using -H to preserve hard links.
Traditionally a unix / linux system will
thanks guys
Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 10:55 -0400, Imran Hussain wrote:
Try DeltaCopy (www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp)
The DeltaCopy UI looks good, but the rsync.exe bundled with it is
version 2.6.6, which is quite old. Noah, I suggest that you replace it
with
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 09:41 -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. I just took at look at the man page for rsyncd.conf
> and it seems to warn you away from combining chroot:
>
> "... disadvantages of ... complicating the preservation of users and
> groups by name (see below)."
The "dis
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 10:55 -0400, Imran Hussain wrote:
> Try DeltaCopy (www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp)
The DeltaCopy UI looks good, but the rsync.exe bundled with it is
version 2.6.6, which is quite old. Noah, I suggest that you replace it
with the rsync.exe from cwRsync (http://it
Try DeltaCopy (www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp)
Noah wrote:
Hi there,
might somebody please recommend the best GUI rsync client for XP please?
Cheers,
Noah
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I believe I've figured out why the process was taking so long...or at least
have a theory. In the end it appears that much of the data was being sent
even though the "true" amount of data change was less than 7% of the
filesize.
Exchange uses a database page size of 4K. Many times a page is de
Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 08:26 -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
I think rsync could match up the "old" uids from
the backup with the "current" uids in the system if it had access to the
old /etc/passwd file, which maps the uids to usernames. So would it be a
good option to add to r
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 08:26 -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
> I think rsync could match up the "old" uids from
> the backup with the "current" uids in the system if it had access to the
> old /etc/passwd file, which maps the uids to usernames. So would it be a
> good option to add to rsync to give it
Hi, I use rsync to back up my Linux system to hard drive. I use the -av
option, and it preserves uids. However if I reinstall Linux, and try to
restore from the backup hard drive, the owner permissions get all mixed
up, I assume since the numeric uids don't match up with the equivalent
username
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