uid/gid settings in rsyncd.conf not respected?

2009-02-12 Thread Harry Mangalam
Hi All, I must not understand the uid/gid line in rsyncd.conf. If someone could briefly point out where I've gone wrong, I'd appreciate it. I've created a special user to backup a server which has some users who don't want all their files backed up, so I'm trying to address their concerns by

rsync binaries for AIX rs6000

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Wolf (SunGard-Chico)
Anyone know where I can find rsync binaries for AIX rs6000? This is for AIX 6.1 and I can't seem to find a C compiler on this box. Thanks. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or us

Delete files specified in "--from-files"-file that don't exist on the sender side

2009-02-12 Thread intripoon
Hi ! I have a tree of files on PC A and a tree of files on PC B. PC B runs rsync in server mode. PC A connects to the rsync server. There is a file containing the files that rsync should copy efficiently from PC A to PC B. This works. Now there are files I want to have deleted on PC B. They

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6107] New: --disable-iconv does nothing

2009-02-12 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6107 Summary: --disable-iconv does nothing Product: rsync Version: 3.0.5 Platform: Other OS/Version: Windows XP Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6106] New: --disable-debug does nothing

2009-02-12 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6106 Summary: --disable-debug does nothing Product: rsync Version: 3.0.5 Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: cor

Re: rsync not preserving permissions

2009-02-12 Thread Andy Smith
Yep that did the trick! thanks Matt. Quoting Matt: Ownership is separate from permissions. To preserve user and group ownership, you need to pass -og . This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- P

Bad File Descriptor | Permission Denied

2009-02-12 Thread François Van Ingelgom
Hello everyone! I'm having strange errors backuping with rsync. I backup over a samba share mounted using mount_smbfs on freebsd. The first backup is no problem, no errors just all data transferred (Speedup 1.00). The second backup seems more problematic here is the error: rsync: failed to

misterious vanishing files /root/tmp.BNM19470

2009-02-12 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, from time to time my rsync backup gives a different return value other than 0. Here is the log: file has vanished: "/root/tmp.BNM19470" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.BsI19474" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.FHo19468" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.NCY19482" file has vanished: "/root/tmp.WIe1