[PATCH] Make progress output show "done" instead of "to-chk".

2008-10-21 Thread Matt McCutchen
In incremental recursion mode, the number of files "to check" can increase (when new file-list chunks are built) as well as decrease, which I found confusing to watch. This patch makes the progress line show the number of files "done" (which increases monotonically) instead. I did notice that the

Re: "pretend" option in rsync?

2008-10-21 Thread rumcho
Great! Thank you Matt. Matt McCutchen-7 wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:24 -0700, rumcho wrote: >> Is there a "pretend" option in rsync that will just show the transfers it >> is >> going to do without actually doing any transfers? > > The --dry-run option disables actually doing the trans

Re: NTFS to NTFS backup

2008-10-21 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 23:22 +0100, Simao M wrote: > I am running rsync version 2.6.9 under Ubuntu 8.04. > > I am trying to backup a NTFS partition to another hard drive formated > as NTFS, using the --delete option, since I want a differential > backup. > > The problem is that rsync first deletes

Re: writefd_unbuffered failed to write

2008-10-21 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 22:54 +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: > In the server logfile I see: > full backup started for directory D (baseline backup #8) > Connected to Loredana.mybackup:10025, remote version 30 > Negotiated protocol version 28 > Connected to module D > Sending > args: --server --sender

Re: "pretend" option in rsync?

2008-10-21 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:24 -0700, rumcho wrote: > Is there a "pretend" option in rsync that will just show the transfers it is > going to do without actually doing any transfers? The --dry-run option disables actually doing the transfers. You would use it in combination with whatever output opti

NTFS to NTFS backup

2008-10-21 Thread Simao M
Hi, I am running rsync version 2.6.9 under Ubuntu 8.04. I am trying to backup a NTFS partition to another hard drive formated as NTFS, using the --delete option, since I want a differential backup. The problem is that rsync first deletes all files on the backup disk and then copies everthing aga

"pretend" option in rsync?

2008-10-21 Thread rumcho
Is there a "pretend" option in rsync that will just show the transfers it is going to do without actually doing any transfers? Or even better, after it shows the transfers it is about to do to prompt if user would like to proceed. Sort of like "emerge --pretend" and "emerge --ask" in Gentoo packag

writefd_unbuffered failed to write

2008-10-21 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I've installed cygwin and rsync on a vista client and want backup it to a Linux server: On client side (vista) I use rsync 3.0.4 (protocol version 30) Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, no IPv6, batchfiles,

Re: rsync recovery of system backup to different Linux computer

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 21 Oct 2008, Paul Slootman wrote: > - Install the kernel, don't forget to setup grub or lilo or whatever. > Using chroot can be handy here. Tuning /etc/modules to the new hardware (e.g. other network interface?) may be necessary here. Paul Slootman -- Please use reply-all for most rep

Re: rsync recovery of system backup to different Linux computer

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 20 Oct 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 05:49 -0700, gldickens3 wrote: > > > > I am very confident in both my backup and recovery rsync scripts, however, I > > am uncertain if the new system would work once the rsync backup was > > recovered since its a different piece of