Re: Using rsync to backup remote server as root

2009-09-03 Thread henri
> --rsync-path="sudo rsync" Another way to achieve something similar would be to have PermitRoot set to without-password, and then set up a key pair for remote login. In authorized_keys2, the remote access for this key pair can be limited to the rsync command. When considering these, b

Re: Using rsync for buidling Oracle standbys.

2009-09-03 Thread Tim Evans
Andrew Gideon wrote: > On the other hand, I recall that Oracle has its own replication engine > for this purpose. As much as I like rsync, wouldn't it make more sense > to use the Oracle-provided mechanism? That was my first thought, too. If the OP is already paying for two Oracle instances, r

Re: Using rsync for buidling Oracle standbys.

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:23:24 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > but the non-atomicity of read(2) calls was not considered If a frozen snapshot is constructed, then I don't see how read()'s inatomicity (if that's a word {8^) would matter. However, I see a related issue. My experience with DB engine

Re: Using rsync for buidling Oracle standbys.

2009-09-03 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 10:25 -0700, Saibabu Devabhaktuni wrote: > We currently use rsync to create an Oracle standby on a target box > from an existing standby by copying all the datafiles while the source > standby is in recovery status. We are occasionally running into > datafile corruptions being

Using rsync for buidling Oracle standbys.

2009-09-03 Thread Saibabu Devabhaktuni
Hi, We currently use rsync to create an Oracle standby on a target box from an existing standby by copying all the datafiles while the source standby is in recovery status. We are occasionally running into datafile corruptions being reported by oracle when it is recovering the new standby. Orac

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6633] Extended attributes under Solaris are not supported.

2009-09-03 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6633 --- Comment #12 from cava...@cilea.it 2009-09-03 07:30 CST --- Small correction to sys_lremovexattr, NOT UNDERSTOOD, unlink of attributes works only of attropen is called without O_RDWR This is not strictly related with fake-sup

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6633] Extended attributes under Solaris are not supported.

2009-09-03 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6633 --- Comment #11 from cava...@cilea.it 2009-09-03 04:18 CST --- (In reply to comment #10) > Thanks for the write fix. > > The latest code turns a symlink into a file when using --fake-super on a > system > that has NO_SYMLINK_XATTRS def