Rsnapshot/rsync buffer overflow

2009-07-16 Thread Kurtis Nelson
I have been using rsnapshot on OS X for a bit now to backup my debian home server to my external HD but have now started getting this error. Shiny:rsync-3.0.6 kurt$ sudo rsnapshot sync /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded \ --exclude=mtab --exclude=core --rsh="

Re: partial-dir not being used?!

2009-07-16 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Matt McCutchen (m...@mattmccutchen.net) wrote on 16 July 2009 20:59: >On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 01:48 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote: >> What's the purpose of --partial-dir then? I thought it was leaving the >> partial transfer as path/partial/filename instead of >> path/.filename.random. That's wha

Re: cannot delete non-empty directory

2009-07-16 Thread sles
Hello, See solution: http://www.susethailand.com/suseforum/index.php?topic=827.0 Scott Machtmes wrote: > > Hello, > > I just upgraded from rsync 2.6.4 to 3.0.5 on Solaris 9 (sparc). Since > then, I'm getting this error "cannot delete non-empty directory" on some > directories. > > My comm

Re: please help me using rsync efficiently

2009-07-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
Paul, On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 15:10 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Thu 16 Jul 2009, vven...@gmail.com wrote: > > /folder1/folder2/users/01234002360/my/FSG2_PULL#79GA91205KAE -> > > /folder1/folder2/rep/01234018329/FSG2_PULL.txt#79GA91205KAE > Once two files are hard-linked, there is > no diffe

Re: partial-dir not being used?!

2009-07-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 01:48 -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > What's the purpose of --partial-dir then? I thought it was leaving the > partial transfer as path/partial/filename instead of > path/.filename.random. That's what it tried to do but this isn't fine > if it needs another move. If rsync is

rsync/ssh many different users

2009-07-16 Thread Laurent Luce
Hello, I am using rsync over ssh to sync files between a high number of windows clients and 1 linux server. I have one ssh account per client on the server. I am looking into redundancy now. Does anyone use a similar setup and has redundancy. I am looking for some advices. Regards, Laurent -

Re: please help me using rsync efficiently

2009-07-16 Thread Hendrik Visage
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:11 PM, wrote: > But i want rsync to copy the files the way the files and links are in the > list file. > Is it possible with rsync? > If so how is it possible? Do it one file+link at a time, very inefficient--- but what is the reason behind the way you want it? -- Ple

Re: please help me using rsync efficiently

2009-07-16 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 16 Jul 2009, vven...@gmail.com wrote: > The contents of the list file (passed to rsync for synchronisation) are > > /folder1/folder2/rep/01234018329/FSG2_PULL.txt#79GA91205KAE --- actual file > /folder1/folder2/users/01234002360/my/FSG2_PULL#79GA91205KAE link > /folder1/folder2/rep/000

please help me using rsync efficiently

2009-07-16 Thread vvenu88
Hi, I need a small information on the way rsync copies the files . I am writing the files , links to a list file and I am passing the list file to rsync for copying to remote machine. The contents of the list file (passed to rsync for synchronisation) are /folder1/folder2/rep/01234018329/FSG2_

Re: sync performance falls off a cliff

2009-07-16 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 15 Jul 2009, Mike Connell wrote: > > I'm up to 404,000 files and the total sync time doesn't seem to be > falling off > a cliff (yet). > > In my case, only about .1% of my files change, so I'm sure it isn't a > rsync memory How do you come to that conclusion? Only the number of total file