On 27/08/2009, at 4:18 PM, Allistar wrote:
How do I enable a full backup of the remote server without allowing
root top
log in to ssh? Can I somehow get rsync to login as a normal user and
then
do some kind of "sudo" command?
--rsync-path="sudo rsync"
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Hi there,
I use this rsync command to backup "/" of a remote server:
rsync -Hav --delete --exclude-from=backup.excludes --delete-excluded -e "ssh -p
45658" r...@samwise:/ /mnt/backup/samwise/backup
Where:
samwise: is the name of the server (yes yes, I know, naming computer after
Hobbits may be
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Why don't they just use Unison?
Because it doesn't work well. It is seriously unreliable with large
files, on Linux or Windows. It also has a horrifying tendency to
corrupt its own state databases, lock up, or exit unexpectedly. It
also doesn
JW wrote:
> On Monday 13 July 2009 14:18:38 Ryan Malayter wrote:
> > It would be a big boost for large files if rsync "remembered" the
> > hashes on each end, so it didn't have to re-read the files on every
> > run if the files were unchanged. This is a feature that rsync's
> > developers have reje
On Monday 13 July 2009 14:18:38 Ryan Malayter wrote:
> It would be a big boost for large files if rsync "remembered" the
> hashes on each end, so it didn't have to re-read the files on every
> run if the files were unchanged. This is a feature that rsync's
> developers have rejected, since rsync is
Hi,
I added a few things to allow the rsync daemon more refined
authorization and authentication than the current implementation.
The attached patch file is against the 3.0.6 version.
Additions:
1. allow the uid and gid used to access a certain module to be
determined by the authenticated user -
Hi all,
I'm trying to write an rsync 'proxy' of sorts. The plan is that my
code runs on two machines (one 'client' and one 'server') and each
piece of code executes a copy of rsync, and copies move in one
direction (server -> client).
I have been able to run rsync on the 'server' end by c
