Re: Using rsync to synchronize

In <4f7cf7e1.5070...@sohnen-moe.com>, on 04/04/12 at 06:39 PM, James Moe said: Hi James, Please reply to the list so that others may participate. > Neither, or both, of those options seem to meet my requirement. > --existing, "skip creating new files on receiver", appears to be >counterpro

Re: Using rsync to synchronize

In <4f7caba1.3020...@sohnen-moe.com>, on 04/04/12 at 01:14 PM, James Moe said: Hi James, >rsync --recursive --links --times --dirs --stats --delete \ > --itemize-changes --quiet --exclude-from=exclude-filename \ > /data-store1/ /data-store2/ FWIW, --dirs is rundundant in the above. > Rec

bug in rsync write-devices patch

All, I tried using the write-devices patch from rsync-patches. Thanks for creating it. I hope that and copy-devices become part of mainline. When I tried to copy from a regular file to a device, with a command like rsync -write-devices -inplace rsync://10.10.10.1/share/drive.img /dev/sdb3

Using rsync to synchronize

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have been using rsync to backup our primary data stores. It works fine. Here are the options I use for doing that: rsync --recursive --links --times --dirs --stats --delete \ --itemize-changes --quiet --exclude-from=exclude-filename \ /

Re: An alternative behavior for symlink

Thank you for your answer, too bad there's no way, but it's understandable. Have a nice day too, Greg Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > > Greg Deback (rsync) wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > I've been googling a lot but I can't find any suitable solution or > > advice, so I'm asking you. > > I'm trying do

RE: An alternative behavior for symlink

Greg Deback (rsync) wrote: > Hello All, > > I've been googling a lot but I can't find any suitable solution or > advice, so I'm asking you. > I'm trying do find a way to sync two distant folders containing > symlinks pointing to files outside the synced folders BUT with > different target names.

Re: An alternative behavior for symlink

Hello All, I've been googling a lot but I can't find any suitable solution or advice, so I'm asking you. I'm trying do find a way to sync two distant folders containing symlinks pointing to files outside the synced folders BUT with different target names. Here is an example: ./dir1: (source) fil

Permission settings problem

Hi all, I'm a bit confused about the handling of the permissions, so please help me to find out the solution: I have an ryncd running as service (root:root), and it has a config file rsyncd.conf Also I have clients, these clients send files to the server. In general the received files on the ser