where is backup-dir rooted?

ious states stretching back from when I first created it] -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, r

Backup dir issue

. I assume it has something to do with the fact that the destination is remote. Is that true? The problem with trying to do this from the other machine is that I would have disk space issues with the ultimate size of my archive. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To

Re: Behaviour that I don't understand

Paul Slootman writes: On Wed 02 Aug 2006, Alan Chandler wrote: The /etc/rsyncd.conf file has the following in it chroot = false strict modes = false hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 127.0.0.1 [system] path = /cygdrive/c comment = the complete c drive [alan] path = /cygdrive/c/Documents

Re: Behaviour that I don't understand

On Wednesday 02 August 2006 23:28, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am trying to set up rsync as a daemon under WindowsXP (professional) in > order to be able to backup this machine on to a linux server. I am > struggling with an issue I don't understand. I don't know whether it is an

Behaviour that I don't understand

ogether) that I can make work is hosts allow = * If I do that it works Why is it that this form of hosts allow is needed. The manual says that if the hosts allow is not present it should allow all hosts - but it doesn't seem to. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To unsu

Re: Permissions problem I don't understand

On Wednesday 30 Nov 2005 23:30, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 18:33 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Now I realise the problem I have examined what I am trying to see what > > cgywin says about the directories on the laptop by running a bash shell > > and ls -l

Re: Permissions problem I don't understand

es on the laptop by running a bash shell and ls -l from it. It says all the "Standard" directories (such as "My Documents") all have permissions of 555. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. --

Re: HELP: need better understanding of "--delete" flag

you connect to via rysncd. Create an empty directory on you local machine, and then rsync --delete this directory to the remote machine, and it makes the remote directoy empty. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.

Re: Permissions problem I don't understand

Paul Slootman writes: On Sat 19 Nov 2005, Alan Chandler wrote: my rsyncd.conf file sets the gid and uid to user backup.backup thusly:- syslog facility = daemon uid = backup gid = backup hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24 hosts deny = 0.0.0.0/0 timeout = 600 read only = false [rabbit] Move

Re: Permissions problem I don't understand

On Sunday 20 Nov 2005 16:32, you wrote: > On 11/19/05, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > > rsync -axq --modify-window=2 --delete --exclude=Mail/ --backup > > --backup-dir=/archive ~/My\ Documents/ roo.home::rabbit/backup/My\ > > D

Permissions problem I don't understand

ments/test.file" (in rabbit) -> "/archive/test.file": Permission denied (13) rsync: stat "/archive/test.file" (in rabbit) failed: No such file or directory (2) (and pretty much the same thing has been logged at the server end) WHY? - everything at the server end is

Understanding backup-dir semantics

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please cc in replies as I am not subscrubed to the list - However I have just searched backwards over the list archive looking for an answer and I can't find any posts relating to this. I am currently backing up my family's windows machine over the