Re: Backup scripts - recycling old backup directories

2014-09-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
I'm using rsync to backup file systems from one machine to another (not sure why we aren't using amanda like we are everywhere else). The combination of rsync updating blocks, rather than replacing files or replicating file systems is a huge savings for us. As daily zfs snapshots (saved for a day

Re: Rsync between OpenVMS & OpenVMS

2012-08-17 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:24:56PM +, Horn, James wrote: > I'm looking at need to duplicate some drives data from one OpenVMS site to > another OpenVMS site. Clustering is not an option, so was wondering if Rsync > could be used between two OpenVMS sites and if there would be any issues with

Re: feature request: "remote user is root, make remote owner is foo"

2010-08-12 Thread Brian Cuttler
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 02:51:35PM -0700, travis+ml-rs...@subspacefield.org wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:32:42PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > [Set u+s on directories, don't worry about owners] > > It seems to work relatively well. I get an error about not being > abl

Re: feature request: "remote user is root, make remote owner is foo"

2010-08-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
Travis, We also use rsync to push our files. While there are several users with the ability to do the push, the files on the webserver host are set with su-gid bit set. No matter which of our web people push the files to the visible server the files all move to a consistent groupship that allows

Re: feature request: "remote user is root, make remote owner is foo"

2010-08-11 Thread Brian Cuttler
Travis, As a matter of principle, SOP, we don't like to ssh/rsync as root and generally don't allow root ssh/rsync into a box. Better/safer to move the security stuff to a lower powered user if you can. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:18:11AM -0700, travis+ml-rs...@subspacefield.org wrote: > I oft

Re: Anyone syncing database files?

2004-08-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
I second that. We backup Oracle on Solaris but we insist that the oracle is down. On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:48:20PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-20 16:43:07 -0400, Loukinas, Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Anyone syncing say 18-20gb Ora

Re: rsync'ing large files

2004-04-22 Thread Brian Cuttler
I can't address the algoritm questions but I'll tell you that we had a tremendous improvement is speed when we switched to a newer version of rsync. We are using it (in this case) to rsync our oracle files to a separate partition on the system cpu. > I'm using rsync to copy some large (>1GB) ora

Re: rsync is great

2004-04-08 Thread Brian Cuttler
Use # find on the remote system and list | rm files that meet your date criteria ? > I'm not on the list but I just wanted to throw my positive feedback out > there. I've been using rsync to backup work that I generate within a > lab to an offsite system. If I lost this data ... > > So great.

Re: Logging from cron

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Cuttler
We always run rsync from a shell script, sometimes we pipe the shell script output to mailx or such. I'm sure you can write it to a log file but don't recall the syntax off hand. We never run the single command as a cron task, ie never 0 23 * * 1-5 rsync but do 0 23 * * 1-5 script1.sh I'm sur

Re: rsync "hang"

2003-12-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
J.W. The memory error was a correctable logged at 15:30 PM, with the apparent time on the rsync issue being 23:00. It would be nice to see everything tie together but I don't see it this time (I've have pushed the same conclusion if I where you. And, yes, I understand the humor - subtext is sooo

rsync "hang"

2003-12-19 Thread Brian Cuttler
Hello rsync list, I am running a Solaris 8 system and have rsync 1.6.2 protocal 14 installed. We have updated (wed 17-dec) to the latest Solaris 8 recommended patch set. When performing an rsync of two local UFS partitions rsync "hung", never completed, didn't exit. What I forced an exit via kil