Re: name too long problem?

2012-02-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Carlos Carvalho wrote: In the latest 3.1 I get this in our backup: filename overflows max-path len by 1: filename overflows max-path len by 1: filename overflows max-path len by 9: filename overflows max-path len by 7: filename overflows max-path len by 4: filename ove

Re: cwRsync got killed...

2011-11-25 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Joachim Otahal (privat) wrote: Last cwrsync was 4.1.0, current is 4.2.0. It was avail on sourceforge. Itefix.no decided "we want money for coding and support" - that itself is not wrong. Though _I_ never needed any rsync help on neither linux and windows (including mixed

Re: why does rsync translate user@host into '$RSYNC_RSH -l user host'?

2011-10-19 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 19Oct2011 12:02, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: | On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Kevin Korb wrote: | >Because it is an even bigger joy to be able to type 'ssh newhost' | >and have it just work even though you can't talk to newhost.

Re: why does rsync translate user@host into '$RSYNC_RSH -l user host'?

2011-10-19 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Kevin Korb wrote: Because it is an even bigger joy to be able to type 'ssh newhost' and have it just work even though you can't talk to newhost. You can do that by properly configuring ssh in ~/.ssh/config with something like this: Host accessiblehost User cameron Hos

Re: Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: use your rsync command with '--list-only', and post-process that list. Even easier, just make a note of the verbose output from the copy (get better stats via --stats with or w/o

Re: Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Paul Dugas wrote: I appreciate the suggestions so far but I know how to measure usage with 'du' et al. The hitch here is that I want to exclude files the --filter='dir-merge .rsync-filter' excludes. Hense the thought to use rsync itself. It sounds like you missed the poin

Re: Rsync goes chokes on this file, can the developers look into it?

2011-09-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
That was the error with his email submission to the rsync list. -- Best, Ben On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Donald Pearson wrote: The error was in the post linked. " the post was held in moderation because the attached file is too large." On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Benjamin R. Hask

Re: Rsync goes chokes on this file, can the developers look into it?

2011-09-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Frank Church wrote: I posted a message to the list earlier about rsync's problem with a file, - here is a link to the post.- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.rsync.general/24044 I have been trying to backup some files which rsync and it always chokes on this file

Re: rsync command for multi files and dirs from remote server

2011-09-18 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
[reversing t On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Kevin Korb wrote: On 09/18/11 23:06, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Noah wrote: Hi there, okay so I have a port knocker installed on my remote server so I am trying to bundle a bunch of directories in a single ssh session that rsync

Re: rsync command for multi files and dirs from remote server

2011-09-18 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Noah wrote: Hi there, okay so I have a port knocker installed on my remote server so I am trying to bundle a bunch of directories in a single ssh session that rsync establishes. so far all the rsync examples I have seen require a new ssh session for each directory. is

Re: exclude hidden files

2011-08-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Ken Gillett wrote: OK, thanks for that. For some reason that escapes me now, I was sure that [--exclude '.*'] caused problems. I'll have a go with just '.*'. My guess is that you were once trying to sync a directory containing hidden (dot) directories. So, e.g.: $ tr

Re: Rsync with SSH through Verizon FIOS Firewall

2011-07-19 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, John Scanlan wrote: Hello there everyone.  I'm trying to set up a server that will "push" via rsync every night to a server in my home.  The verizon firewall is quite robust, and it makes connecting a bit tricky.  Does anyone have any tips on how I might set this up? Per

Re: selectively copying files

2011-01-13 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Mag Gam wrote: bump On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Mag Gam wrote: Hello All, I am trying to sync 2 directories. src/year/month/day/fileA.csv src/year/month/day/fileB.csv src/year/month/day/fileC.csv .. src/year/month/day/fileZ.csv I would to sync only file{B,D,T}.csv

RE: Changes made to main.c on implementing real time Rsync

2010-11-11 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Steven Xu wrote: Hi, Wayne, Thanks for your reply. I just did a test: Here is the Rsync client output: C:\Program Files (x86)\cwRsync\bin\rsync" -av "/cygdrive/e/fileserver/Worksheets/reconcil/./Fiducie Desjardins/Dailies/cl0016062moveq20101110.txt"   "lba023::Rsync/"

Re: Excluding most and including some problems continue.

2010-10-01 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Ian Skinner wrote: Unfortunately there are some subdirectories in some of these selected */htdocs/docs* directories that are unintentionally being excluded by these rules. I.E. */export/home/enf/htdocs/docs/county/inte

Re: recent discussion regarding 'checksums'

2010-09-28 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 22:33 -0400, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: But the flip side is that rsync is not a security tool. MD5 is fine for rsync for the same reason SHA-1 (which, as with all hashes, will eventually be "broken") is fine for g

Re: recent discussion regarding 'checksums'

2010-09-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, grarpamp wrote: > If Ad nauseum... to each shall entertain their own use case scenarios. The overall point is that MD5 is not suitable for data integrity beyond it's known [and unknown] weaknesses. But the flip side is that rsync is not a security tool. MD5 is fine for

Re: Rsync command failing as a Cron Tab

2010-09-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Ian Skinner wrote: We have this Rsync command that does what is desired when ran either directly OR with a shell script. /usr/local/bin/rsync -vvv -P --stats -zrtpl --delete --password-file=/export/home/webuser/.appprod --log-file=/exp*/h*/web*/logs/rsync-log --exclude "

Re: Rsync failed as a cron task.

2010-09-16 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Ian Skinner wrote: Any advice for an all around newbie. I have a rsync command that works just fine whenever I have executed it directly from the command line. /usr/local/bin/rsync -v -v -v -P --stats -z -r -t -p -l --delete --password-file=/export/home/webuser/.appprod -

Re: default value for --compress-level

2010-09-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: What is the default value for --compress-level=? 6? 9? The fine manual only mentions: --compress-level=NUM Explicitly set the compression level to use (see --compress) instead of letting it default. If NUM is

Re: Very Newbie question...

2010-09-09 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Blaine Miller wrote: Is this the correct list to ask newbie questions and if not, which forum do I subscribe to? Thanks and thanks for not taking my head off with your response… Not sure what's going on with your bounced messages (Why are you replying to rsync-bounces?

Re: RE: strange behavier after finished backup

2010-08-22 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, balearenin...@gmx.net wrote: > Verry fast answer... Thank you Tony > > > > > > Hola, > > > > new to the list and maybe having problems with english I ask for a > > friendly and a not too difficult answer. > > > > Using Windows 7 Pro, > > D-link DNS-323 NAS-Storage > > rSy

RE: using rsync for jar file

2010-08-17 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Vanitha wrote: > Precisely  I did the same thing & I noticed that the size of the file > and the timestamp didn’t change. How do I troubleshoot this? Any help > is appreciated First step would be to tell us how you're using rsync. *Not* the broad overview (synchronize a J

Re: HDB, a hard drive backup program

2010-08-11 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, travis+ml-rs...@subspacefield.org wrote: > Hey all, I'm writing a tool: > > http://www.subspacefield.org/security/hdb/ > > It is very similar in some ways to rsync, except it's meant for > backing up locally to removable HDDs, and it keeps metadata around > when the HDD is

Re: rsync to iSCSI over WAN

2010-07-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Tom Christensen wrote: > > > I am running rsync in cygwin on windows. I am attempting to backup a > > somewhat large data store (750GB) to a remote site. As its windows > > and preserving permissions

Re: rsync to iSCSI over WAN

2010-07-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Tom Christensen wrote: > I am running rsync in cygwin on windows. I am attempting to backup a > somewhat large data store (750GB) to a remote site. As its windows and > preserving permissions exactly is important, I have an iSCSI drive > mounted on the local system across a

Re: rsync sleep

2010-06-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Mag Gam wrote: > Is it possible to sleep 1 second after each file is rsynced? > > Ofcourse, I can put this in a for loop and do a sleep after each file > is done, I was wondering if there was anything native in rsync for > this type of operation. If you're trying not to hog

Re: osx 10.6 strange rsync errors

2010-04-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Robert DuToit wrote: > Hi Matt, > > I set up a simple test with a nest of directories ( aa > bb > cc > dd > &ee) with 1 file in each. running rsync from OS 10.6 to another Mac > with OS10.5 there seems to be no problem. When doing the reverse I am > seeing the odd behavior

Re: rsync --exclude-from-file not working

2010-03-28 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Johan wrote: > Good day, > > rsync does load and read the file but does not act on it. > > If I change the filename rsync complains. > I must be doing something wrong. The paths for 'exclude-from' should be relative to the root directory of your source. (So, omit the '/be

Re: include/exclude problems

2010-03-26 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Vitaly V. Ganusov wrote: > However, it seems like a very messy way to sync a given file (by > excluding bunch of other files that are not needed). Would you suggest > a better way? Could you suggest a simple way/script to generate such > a file (see attached) with only a f

Re: Corrupt Windows executables - K-Lite setup programs only

2010-02-07 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Jeff Stelzner wrote: > Hi: I'm running rsync-3.0.7 from a freebsd-7.2 x32 box and a > freebsd-8.0-x64 box. All files seem to replicate fine except the setup > programs for K-Lite Codec Pack e.g. > http://fileforum.betanews.com/sendfile/1094057842/2/1265418487.c39d017a17a32d0b

Re: rsync --link-dest, --delete and hard-link count

2010-02-07 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, grarpamp wrote: > > [[Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:]] > > And, it's a slow process on my machine > > Ramdisk is good for such empty file tests. Good tip. > And you can blow it away in a second by simply nuking the core. > Instead of waiting

RE: rsync --link-dest, --delete and hard-link count

2010-02-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Tony Abernethy wrote: > Grarpamp wrote: > > Yes, hardlinks save data block duplication... yet on filesystems > > with millions of files / long pathnames, just the directory entries > > alone can take up gigs per image. Multiply that out by frequency and > > it can quickly ad

Re: --daemon doesn't respect --address?

2010-01-22 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Ali Polatel wrote: > I've noticed a weirdness in rsync. > Let me explain it briefly with an example. > Below is a test script: > > #!/bin/sh > > cat >rsyncd.conf < address = localhost > use chroot = no > hosts allow = localhost > [from] > path = /tmp/from > read only

Re: Include and Exclude

2009-12-26 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, LuKreme wrote: > I thought this command would do what I wanted, but instead it doesn't > transfer any files: > > rsync -avh --stats --password-file=/var/rsync.passwd --include=Maildir/ > --exclude=* mail::root/usr/home /backup/usr/ > > I want to backup ONLY the /usr/home/*

Re: Will rsync support btrfs file system?

2009-12-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Charles Marcus wrote: > > > On 12/6/2009, Louise Hoffman (louise.hoff...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > The way I read that, it's not something rsync-specific. It sounds > > > like btrfs would allo

Re: Will rsync support btrfs file system?

2009-12-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 12/6/2009, Louise Hoffman (louise.hoff...@gmail.com) wrote: > > The way I read that, it's not something rsync-specific. It sounds > > like btrfs would allow the generation of a list of files, which rsync > > (or tar, or zip, or whatever) could accept.

Re: Will rsync support btrfs file system?

2009-12-05 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Louise Hoffman wrote: > Hi, > > I just read the Project Ideas for Oracle's Linux file system btrfs > > http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Incremental_backups > > that rsync could get info from btrfs about what files have changed, and > therefor only increm

Output of --list-only?

2009-11-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
Am I overlooking something obvious, or is there really no way to specify an output format for '--list-only' or 'rsync -a [SOURCE]'? Tried '--out-format=%n' and '--log-file-format=%n' (just in case), but neither had any effect. Noticing '-i'/'--itemize-changes' lead to what I'm using for now: