Re: --files-from= and --delete corrent options

2008-09-23 Thread James Robertson
Matt McCutchen wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:00 +1000, James Robertson wrote: I tried this but it doesn't seem to work for me as you describe. I just created a test setup. The commands I'm running are as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsync --version rsync version 2.6.9 protocol versio

Re: howto backup a Solaris 7 Server without its OS

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:56 +0200, Jende, Niels wrote: > I haven't used rsync as yet but today I have to. Basically I need to > backup all datas from one Server to another machine with the whole > structure. Here is what I have on mind and I am wondering if that might > be a way to go... > > Conne

Re: --files-from= and --delete corrent options

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:00 +1000, James Robertson wrote: > I tried this but it doesn't seem to work for me as you describe. I just > created a test setup. The commands I'm running are as follows: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsync --version > rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 > [EMAIL PROT

Re: (not quite) reproducible segfaults in 3.0.3

2008-09-23 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:04:50PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > In debian bug #498083 (http://bugs.debian.org/498083) someone is getting > segfaults reasonably consistently, however when using - it doesn't > happen... Much appreciated! That info made me immediately think that there was an xa

Re: --files-from= and --delete corrent options

2008-09-23 Thread James Robertson
Try this instead: rsync [OPTIONS] --include-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE --exclude='*' /var/data/shares/vmbackups/ /mnt/usb_backup/SFSYDVS01/daily.0/VM/ This way, rsync will scan the destination directory for deletions (since you have -a without --files-from, which implies -r) and will delete the old

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5789] rsync trying to set times on symlinks

2008-09-23 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5789 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|

Re: --files-from= and --delete corrent options

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:43 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running the following command to backup a specific file from > /tmp/BACKUPFILE which contains the name "Friday2008-09-19.bkf". > > rsync -ah --delete --numeric-ids --stats --delete-excluded > --files-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE /var/data/

Re: simple incremental backup woes. solutions?

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:46 +0200, The Peach wrote: > Just an info: will this patch be merged in the stable branch of rsync? Most likely not, as it's a quick hack. Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.s

Re: error receiving files from protocol 29 server

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 12:58 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > In debian bug #493559 (http://bugs.debian.org/493559) the problem is > that when requesting a file from an older version rsync, the remote > server gives an error: > > $ rsync rsync://rsync.blackholes.us/zones/countries/countries.rbl /tmp >

Re: help required for passing parameters to rsync within a script

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 22:22 +0100, michael wrote: > I'm attempting to write a short script to copy all 'CONC*' files in any > subdir under ./ using rsync and filters but I can't get the correct > quoting/escaping... any ideas? > # filter: all subdirs but only CONC* files > FILTER="--filter=+ \* --

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5789] New: rsync trying to set times on symlinks

2008-09-23 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5789 Summary: rsync trying to set times on symlinks Product: rsync Version: 3.0.4 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Mac OS X Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Comp

help required for passing parameters to rsync within a script

2008-09-23 Thread michael
I'm attempting to write a short script to copy all 'CONC*' files in any subdir under ./ using rsync and filters but I can't get the correct quoting/escaping... any ideas? eg cmd line (all on a single line): /home/horace/mccssmb2/src/rsync-2.6.9__icc/rsync --times --links -z --progress --stats -v

Re: (not quite) reproducible segfaults in 3.0.3

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Bombich
I think I isolated that exact same crash just last night. Here's my symbolized crash report: Process: rsync [17295] Path:/usr/local/bin/rsync Identifier: rsync Version: ??? (???) Code Type: PPC (Native) Parent Process: rsync [17294] Date/Time: 200

Re: rsync many small files

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 23 Sep 2008, Mag Gam wrote: > At our lab we have storage with many small files. For example a > directory can contain over 15,000 files and each file averages about > 75k. I would like to sync this to another filesystem on a different > server but I am not sure if there is a rsync tuning fl

Re: rsync many small files

2008-09-23 Thread Sven Hartrumpf
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:49:33 -0400, magawake wrote: > At our lab we have storage with many small files. For example a > directory can contain over 15,000 files and each file averages about > 75k. I would like to sync this to another filesystem on a different > server but I am not sure if there is a r

(not quite) reproducible segfaults in 3.0.3

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Slootman
In debian bug #498083 (http://bugs.debian.org/498083) someone is getting segfaults reasonably consistently, however when using - it doesn't happen... Fortunately Sven was able to get a good backtrace. I can't quite see what's causing the problem; it does seem to be related to xattrs. Please s

error receiving files from protocol 29 server

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Slootman
In debian bug #493559 (http://bugs.debian.org/493559) the problem is that when requesting a file from an older version rsync, the remote server gives an error: $ rsync rsync://rsync.blackholes.us/zones/countries/countries.rbl /tmp rsync: on remote machine: -: unknown option rsync error: requested

rsync many small files

2008-09-23 Thread Mag Gam
At our lab we have storage with many small files. For example a directory can contain over 15,000 files and each file averages about 75k. I would like to sync this to another filesystem on a different server but I am not sure if there is a rsync tuning flag I can use for such a intensive job. I am