Re: Is there any easy way to set some default rsync options?

Paul Slootman via rsync wrote: > On Wed 16 Oct 2024, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > > > I use it almost exclusively on Linux systems and it would be really > > handy if I could set a number of options which would always be used > > when I run rsync. These would be

Re: A question about rsync filters, not sure if I understand the man page

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 05:56:28PM +0200, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:00:47 +0100 Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > > I run a daily backup using 'rsync -a -F ' > > > I want to exclude everything in ~/.local/share

A question about rsync filters, not sure if I understand the man page

I run a daily backup using 'rsync -a -F ' I want to exclude everything in ~/.local/share **except** the file:- /home/chris/.local/share/evolution/calendar/system/calendar.ics I have the following in my rsync-filter file to exclude ~/.local/share - .local/share Can I simp

Re: Is it possible to use rsync daemon running on 64-bit machine from a 32-bit machine?

Paul Slootman via rsync wrote: > On Sun 02 Jun 2024, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > > I have an rsync daemon running on a 64-bit (x86_64) system which I > > successfully use for backups from several other 64-bit systems on my > > LAN. > > > > I want to

Is it possible to use rsync daemon running on 64-bit machine from a 32-bit machine?

I have an rsync daemon running on a 64-bit (x86_64) system which I successfully use for backups from several other 64-bit systems on my LAN. I want to use it for backups from a BeagleBone Black (32-bit, armv7l) but it fails as follows:- root@bbb:~# rsync -a /etc chris@backup::bbb

[PATCH] Fix INET6 detection on recent clang

with -4 which works fine except when there is only v6 connectivity between a pair of hosts, whereupon ssh between them works but rsync unexpectedly fails with 'Name has no usable address'. Signed-off-by: Chris Webb --- configure.ac | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) di

Can rsync write to a FIFO?

ssing mechanism. Write something to a file on system A and rsync it to a FIFO on system B where there is a simple script reading the FIFO. The script gets the contents of the file every time it's written. (this is all within a LAN behind a reasonably secure firewall) -- Chris Green -- Please

Re: rsync using a lot of memory at receiving end (receiving end is cPanel ssh login)

Chris Green via rsync wrote: > I have been using rsync to copy some web site files to a new (to me) > hosting platform. Yesterday I was doing this and noticed that my ssh > login to cPanel in another terminal window was unresponsive. > > On looking at the browser display of

rsync using a lot of memory at receiving end (receiving end is cPanel ssh login)

version 30. Is this to be expected (using so much memory) or is something going wrong somewhere? More to the point is there anything I can do about it? -- Chris Green -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lis

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

But I use Linux, not windows.. :-) -- Chris Green · -- 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, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 08:10:47AM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: > On 2021/08/07 03:44, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > L A Walsh via rsync wrote: > > > It seems to me, a safer bet would be to generate an ssh-cert > > > that allows a passwdless login from your sys to the rem

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

L A Walsh via rsync wrote: > On 2021/08/03 07:09, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > I already have an rsync daemon server running elsewhere, I can add > > this requirement to that I think. Thank you. > > > > > It seems to me, a safer bet would be to genera

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

Andy Smith via rsync wrote: > > > I've set it up so chris can run rsync with root permissions. > > However I'm not quite sure how to get it to work as one needs to say > > "sudo rsync" to get the root privilege. How do you do that? > > The first

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

Andy Smith via rsync wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 11:48:31AM +0100, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > If I used the --super option (in a command like the one above) and > > chris can run rsync as root on the remote end (via options in the > > sudoer

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

Paul Slootman via rsync wrote: > On Tue 03 Aug 2021, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > > Is there a way to copy (for example) the /etc hierarchy from one > > system to another preserving root ownership of files and without > > revealing root passwords all over the place?

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

Andy Smith via rsync wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 09:48:37AM +0100, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > But how do you handle the other end to restore the root ownership etc.? > > The script has to do something like:- > > > > rsync

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

Chris Green via rsync wrote: > Is there a way to copy (for example) the /etc hierarchy from one > system to another preserving root ownership of files and without > revealing root passwords all over the place? > > This is actually from and to Debian based systems (from Raspberry

How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

ownership etc.? The script has to do something like:- rsync -a /etc/ chris@remote:backups/etc/ So at the remote end it only has chris' privileges. I want to automate this, I don't want any manual intervention to be needed. -- Chris Green · -- Please use reply-all for most replies

Simplest way to copy only .log files, and then delete them?

they came from. Is the only way to exclude all files and then include '*.log' files? -- Chris Green · -- 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, read: http

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On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 17:53, Chris Cowan via rsync https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync>> wrote: >>* I’ve also been looking at several solutions that try to sandbox >>openssh/rsync.These include rssh (which should not be used anymore, >>because it

The GPFS attribute patch and sandboxing rsync when running in --server mode

? I realize that if done incorrectly, it could cause more problems than it fixed. -- Chris Cowan -- 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, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Is there a default for 'pid file' for rsync in daemon mode?

Francis.Montagnac--- via rsync wrote: > > Hi. > > On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 09:57:38 + Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > > My backup system crashed a couple of nights ago due to a power cut > > (can't really blame it!) and I went and restarted it after the power &g

Is there a default for 'pid file' for rsync in daemon mode?

I just got bitten by a (fairly) subtle problem due to having an inappropriate location for 'pid file' in my rsyncd.conf. What I had was:- pid file = /home/chris/tmp/pid This works fine until the system running rsync in daemon mode crashes rather than being properly shut down. Th

Re: Is there any way to restore/create hardlinks lost in incremental backups?

Guillaume Outters via rsync wrote: > On 2020-12-11 12:53, Chris Green wrote : > > > […] wrote a trivial[ish] script that copied > > all the backups to a new destination sequentially (using --link-dest) > > and then removed the original tree, having checked the new backu

Re: Is there any way to restore/create hardlinks lost in incremental backups?

Paul Slootman via rsync wrote: > On Thu 10 Dec 2020, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > > > Occasionally, because I've moved things around or because I've done > > something else that breaks things, the hard links aren't created as > > they should

Is there any way to restore/create hardlinks lost in incremental backups?

e link from day5 so you'd have to apply it to all the directories after the one that's lost the links. -- Chris Green · -- 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

Re: implied-dirs tail component being chown'd

rk that way). I hope this illustrates the issue I'm trying to solve.I had thought this might be a somewhat common problem, but it doesn't seem like there is a good solution to this. The easiest workaround for me so far is just to overwrite the Mac/Windows system-owned attributes and

implied-dirs tail component being chown'd

would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Chris -- 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, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: [Bug 12569] Missing directory errors not ignored

? (https://mail.edison.tech/chat-invite.html?invitorName=Chris%20Goodman&invitorEmail=cgoody2...@gmail.com&message=?&mid=572b82e3c44e452eab297ad5de8726d6&inviteeName=Rsync-Qa&inviteeEmail=rsync...@samba.org) S

Re: Ensuring that rsync doesn't try to write to an unmounted drive

I'm answering your question. The mount info on the drive is /dev/sdb1 on /media/chris/backup2 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2) However, in the script it's actually checking for the folder the backup is written to 'snapshot' BACKUP_DIR="/

Ensuring that rsync doesn't try to write to an unmounted drive

to the hard drive instead of the USB drive? rsync -vaWSHpl --timeout=15 --delete-excluded --filter "merge ${EXC_FILE}" / "${BACKUP_DIR}" > /home/chris/rsyncbackup.log 2> /home/chris/rsyncbackup.errors.log If this is sufficient or would it be better if I lowered the '

"Total File Size" Statistic counts each instance of hard linked files

ctually correct behaviour? My feeling is no, but this consideration isn't apparent in the source or docs that I've read. Appreciate any comments, particularly from the project maintainers. Thanks, Chris -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list.

Re: rsync hangs on select() system call

Le 02/05/2015 01:09, Chris a écrit : Hi Thomas (and the list members), I have exactly the same problem. It's very very annoying as it breaks backups. Did you resolve it ? I updated on both sides to rsync 3.1.1 compiled manually, and now I get one more line just before the select an

Re: rsync hangs on select() system call

Hi Thomas (and the list members), I have exactly the same problem. It's very very annoying as it breaks backups. Did you resolve it ? Regards, Chris -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/ma

Re: Backup scripts

happening in addition to this script. It was pointed out to me in a direct message that I had inadvertently posted the same scripts (full backup) in pastebin. Here are the correct one. Full http://pastebin.com/dEk7kBip Snapshot http://pastebin.com/H7SuABN1 > > On 09/04/2014 04:58 PM, C

Re: Backup scripts

eck. > > On 09/04/2014 12:30 PM, Chris wrote: > > I have two scripts that a kind soul on this list wrote for me over > > 4yrs ago. I got to looking at them the other day because my old box > > crashed and had to build a new one also got a new backup USB drive > > since

Backup scripts

napshot' the night before. It seems though that it's actually the same as a full backup. I don't profess to be a script person so I have no idea if it's doing what it should or something needs to be changed. Below is the 2nd script: http://pastebin.com/MkBzJnux Any advice would

Re: Problem copying hard-linked symlinks

ll the #defines's) it gives exit code 0. Some historical research indicates that something changed here between rsync 3.0.5 and 3.0.6. I found some old build directories on one Solaris 10_x86 system (not all made by me, so it doesn't seem to be a personal idioscyncracy). Running configure

Re: Problem copying hard-linked symlinks

On Jun 14 2014, Wayne Davison wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: When copying these with -H, rsync gets more than a little confused: Your rsync must be configured without CAN_HARDLINK_SYMLINK being defined (see config.h), as the normal code has been working

Problem copying hard-linked symlinks

target is local or remote. I have variants where -R is being used as well as -H. Before trying to officially report this, I thought I would ask on this mailing list whether anyone can reproduce the problem. -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk -- Please use reply-all for most replies to av

Re: /usr/bin/ssh not found when rsync is executed within rsnapshot

shot type script that incorporates the call to ssh with the relevant arguments. Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/list

rsync seems to overwhelm a failing hard disk

be expected? Is there a way to make rsync more gentle on a fragile disk? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe

Re: rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

On 18/06/13 17:35, Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you make a link to a link you make a link to all of its links. The effect is the same. Good point -- I hadn't thought of it like that. Thanks for the tip. cheers Chris On 06/18/13 12:27, Chris D

Re: rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

ource directory. Does that make sense? cheers Chris On 06/18/13 11:49, Chris Dennis wrote: On 18/06/13 15:02, Kevin Korb wrote: rsync -vai --lin-dest=/path/to/source/ /path/to/source/ /path/to/target/ Note that if you try it with relative paths the link-dest will be relative to the sourc

Re: rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

that --link-dest needed a relative path. This works for me: rsync -Haxv --stats --link-dest ../dir1 dir1/ dir2 The / on the end of the second dir1 is, of course, essential. cheers Chris On 06/18/13 09:39, Chris Dennis wrote: Hello rsync people I thought I knew how to use rsync, but I can&#

rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

rpart in dir1. Why not just use cp? Because I want to be able to do it as a user who has sudo permission to run rsync but not cp. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most replies to

Re: rsync behavior on copy-on-write filesystems

4.59 bytes/sec > total size is 10737418240 speedup is 1.00 > 851.783u 79.265s 16:14.78 95.5% 0+0k 19752416+20971520io 17pf+0w > > ## 7) Alas the new file takes up a full extra 10 GB. You're testing --whole-file: that's the default with source and destination as local paths.

Re: speedup is always 0.99

Grant If either of the disks is formatted with FAT, then you'll need --modify-window=1 -- see the man page or http://serverfault.com/questions/54949/how-can-i-use-rsync-with-a-fat-file-system cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge,

Re: --list-only ordering

On 17/12/12 17:09, Paul Slootman wrote: On Mon 17 Dec 2012, Chris Dennis wrote: I've noticed an apparent inconsistency in the ordering of output from the --list-only option. For example: $ ls d1 d2 d2-x d3 f1 f2 f2-x f3 $ rsync --list-only . drwxr-xr-x4096 20

--list-only ordering

I rely on the output staying the same in the future? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.

Re: dynamic bwlimit with rsync

ld be contained in max bwlimit (say like 1Mbps) and if there is only one running it should use the entire allocated bandwidth limit. Instead of trying to use --bwlimit, take a look at "trickle". It's old but works well Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Link-dest breaks on uid/gid mismatches

On 11/06/12 21:24, Kevin Korb wrote: You might want to look into --fake-super. It can store metadata things (like ownership) in the file attributes instead of setting them on the file. Thank you for the suggestion. Again, that seems to be a work-around (albeit possibly a better one)? Chris

Link-dest breaks on uid/gid mismatches

to want to cite it here Any other thoughts, please? Should I report this as a bug? Cheers, Chris -- 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, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Rsync to a Remote NAS

shouldnt have to open any ports because this is coming across the VPN, right? Chris Arnold schrieb: > Forgive me if this has been addressed here before. We have a remote office > that we need to backup to our NAS. We have a site to site certificate VPN. > The remote site has over 51gb that

Re: Rsync to a Remote NAS

click test connection, it does not connect. Does this one support the rsync daemon? - Original Message - From: "Joachim Otahal (privat)" To: "Chris Arnold" Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:28:42 PM Subject: Re: Rsync to a Remote NAS This is like

Re: Run rsync even not connected

On Apr 11, 2012, at 10:48 PM, "Brian K. White" wrote: > Now just run the rsync command. no nohup, no &. Just so completely understand, it should be: rsync --options x no nohup no & Or am I completely wrong? Btw, Brian K. White, that looks familiar. You a member of the opensuse or postfix l

Re: Run rsync even not connected

can log back in and re-attach. > > On 04/11/12 22:05, Chris Arnold wrote: >> I hopethis hope this makes sense. How do you make rsync run even >> when not physically connected to the server? In other words, I run >> rsync from the terminal via vnc and when I log out of the

Run rsync even not connected

I hopethis hope this makes sense. How do you make rsync run even when not physically connected to the server? In other words, I run rsync from the terminal via vnc and when I log out of the connection, rsync stops running. Is there a script or something I can use? Sent from my iPhone -- Please

Re: Rsync to a Remote NAS

d volume, using mount > -t smbfs, then sync. See > http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/backup.html > > Greg > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Chris Arnold > mailto:carn...@electrichendrix.com>> > wrote: > > Forgive me if this has been addressed here bef

Rsync to a Remote NAS

Forgive me if this has been addressed here before. We have a remote office that we need to backup to our NAS. We have a site to site certificate VPN. The remote site has over 51gb that needs to be backed up to our NAS over that VPN. I have tried this command: rsync --verbose --progress --stats -

--compress data-duplication bug?

x27;m wondering if this bug might have caused any corruption in existing data sets. Cheers, Chris -- 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, read: http://www.catb.org

question about why rsync log doesn't include remot ip or remote host

Hello all, This is my first post to this mailing list. I have been using rsync for a bit and have it mostly working the way I want. I have a backup server that I run all scripts from. It rsyncs data from four different Linux servers via cron. A sample of a script is here: rsync -avz --log-form

Re: Use rsync's checksums to deduplicate across backups

it seems it > was > never included into rsync. Is that correct? Yes, rsync-patches is stuff that is deemed to be not yet ready (i.e. it may go in after it's been polished), or not at all suitable (e.g. it's too esoteric for general usage), for rsync proper. Chris -- Please use re

Re: Use rsync's checksums to deduplicate across backups

: http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=rsync-patches.git;a=blob;f=link-by-hash.diff This patch adds the --link-by-hash=DIR option, which hard links received files in a link farm arranged by MD4 file hash. The result is that the system will only store one copy of the unique contents of each file, rega

Re: Brandysnap -- a new rsync-based snapshot management script

On 04/07/11 02:24, Henri Shustak wrote: Hi Chris, https://github.com/StarsoftAnalysis/brandysnap I am involved with the LBackup project. Would you be okay with a link being generated to the Brandy on github page from the LBackup alternatives<http://www.lbackup.org/alternatives>

Brandysnap -- a new rsync-based snapshot management script

ot use it for anything important (yet). Brandysnap can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/StarsoftAnalysis/brandysnap where you can follow its development and read more details. Hopefully it will prove useful. I look forward to hearing comments and ideas. cheers Chris

Re: keep 2 dirs in sync

aming files and deleting files on *either* host. You may want to investigate unison, which is designed for such usage. Or syncany -- www.syncany.org cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for

rsync 3.0.7 hangs with unreadable hard-links files

e it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. $ ls -dl foo drwxr-xr-x 2 chris chris 4096 2011-06-09 23:23 foo $ ls -il foo total 8 15958048 --w--- 2 chris chris 193 2011-05-25 19:19 bd 15958048 --w--- 2 chris chris 193 2011-05-25 19:19 bd2 $ rsync -avv --hard

Re: rsync and many files

Kevin Korb sanitarium.net> writes: > A lot of this has to do with the filesystems and operating systems involved. > > Since you didn't specify I will guess Linux with ext3. If that is the > case run don't walk to ext4. Also, mount the filesystems with the > noatime and nodiratime options. This

Re: rsync and many files

On 2011-06-07, Kevin Korb wrote: > > A lot of this has to do with the filesystems and operating systems involved. > > Since you didn't specify I will guess Linux with ext3. If that is the > case run don't walk to ext4. Also, mount the filesystems with the > noatime and nodiratime options. This

Re: Multi-Threading?

only changed data, but it's multithreaded, multi-stream, and all around a really fast data mover. Chris - Original Message - > I have a backup server now restoring 6TB of data to a client machine. > This has been going on for four days now, and no sign of getting close

Re: can't create a local mirror

p and doing the script from there. IOW, everything else > stops until I do the daily backup. Add this to your 'exclude.rules' file: - /home/*/.gvfs -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Please use reply-all for

Re: Rsync command failing as a Cron Tab

Try using the whole path as I've done below and see if that works. cd /usr/local/bin; /usr/local/bin/rsync_local_backup_v2.sh HTH Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid o

Re: Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:57 +0300, edac...@gmail.com wrote: > On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote: > > I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var > > on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. > > I've tried

Re: Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:57 +0300, edac...@gmail.com wrote: > On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote: > > I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var > > on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. > > I've tried

Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

10GiB out of 70 used. Would rsync be a suitable application to use for this or will it only work over a network? Thank you for any information -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avo

Re: Check/compare modtime before deleting?

Thanks Matt. I'll do some research on unison. - Chris On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 11:31 -0700, Chris wrote: >> I need to keep two identical copies of files on my desktop and laptop, >> so I want to use the -delete option.

Check/compare modtime before deleting?

sync) when using the -delete option? Thanks and I appreciate any help. -Chris -- 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, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/

Re: rSync Issue with lots of small files

and FIFOs. o Fix multiple socket problems: o Potential blocking of non-blocking sockets. o Non-working renaming of AF_UNIX socket files. o Using MSG_PEEK on UDP sockets leads to data loss. See: http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/12243 Hopefully that's the end of the reports of ha

Re: [PATCH] Don't (wrongly) retouch dir permissions with --fake-super.

Once upon a time, Wayne Davison said: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > Hmm, I've applied this patch on both sides, but I'm still getting the > > same error. > > The errors should go away on the next run No, the errors went away when I act

Re: [PATCH] Don't (wrongly) retouch dir permissions with --fake-super.

ors) (code 23) at main.c(1039) [sender=3.0.6] # ls -ld /tcb/lib d--x--x--x2 bin bin 8192 Aug 20 2003 /tcb/lib/ # ssh u...@remote 'ls -ld /dest/backup/new/root/tcb/lib' d--x--x--x 2 user users 4096 Aug 20 2003 /dest/backup/new/root/tcb/lib -- Chris Adams Systems and

Problem with permissions

-v -axH --inplace --delete --rsync-path="rsync --fake-super" / u...@remote:/backup/root/ I have to put --fake-super in the remote command only, because the system I'm backing up doesn't support extended attributes. -- Chris Adams Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

rsync, --sparse and VM disk images

Hi Bas, I'm not sure if this is of interest, but I also had issues with VM disk-image sparse-files (in my case KVM, rather than VMWare), which I've now resolved. http://www.finalcog.com/rsync-vm-sparse-inplace-kvm-vmware All the best, Chris Dew. P.S. Apologies for any breach of eti

rsync docs typo

off super-user activities, the super-user can use --no-super. the receiving side isn't being running as the receiving side isn't being run as -- Chris Pepper:<http://cbio.mskcc.org/> <http://www.extrapepperoni.com/

rsync binaries for AIX rs6000

Anyone know where I can find rsync binaries for AIX rs6000? This is for AIX 6.1 and I can't seem to find a C compiler on this box. Thanks. CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or us

Re: Using a CD to make initial copy

> copy onto the target, then run rsync to grab any updates? > > What if the target doesn't have the same users as the source. > > Is there a suggested recipe for this? See "Batch Mode" in the man page. -chris -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitti

Re: CVS access to rsync repository

thanks Matt! On Mon, Okt 13, 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:39 +0200, Chris Joelly wrote: > > i see lots of error messages with "io.c(1123)" showing up, but i don't > > know where to get the exact revision of this io.c file? > > >

CVS access to rsync repository

purposes? thx, Chris -- "The greatest proof that intelligent life other that humans exists in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us!" -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.o

Re: IO error / connection unexpectedly closed

9 Copyright (C) 1996-2005 by Andrew Tridgell and others <http://rsync.samba.org/> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums On Mon, Okt 13, 2008, Chris Joelly wrote: > Hello, > >

IO error / connection unexpectedly closed

Hello, i use rsync from Windows to rsync on Linux via ssh and get IO Errors and connection unexpectedly closed errors on almost every sync run. Can anybody give me some hints on how to track down the problem? thx, Chris 2008/10/11 09:41:04 [13744] rsync to backup// from UNKNOWN (w.x.y.z) 2008

Re: Bug with crtimes and hard links?

Thanks Wayne, Your patch didn't fix it, but this one seem to work: crtimes-bug.patch Description: Binary data (It turns out that file_struct does have a crtime embedded in it; I just didn't see it at first). -- Chris On Sep 27, 2008, at 6:28, Wayne Davison wrote: O

Bug with crtimes and hard links?

tly) from the previous invocation of recv_file_entry. The obvious idea would be to add a crtime field to file_struct but that looks like it has some large potential impact and I'm afraid I don't know the rsync codebase sufficiently to want to attempt a fix. -- Chris -- Please use rep

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rsync -r --exclude /In/ --exclude /Lirsync error message that I don't understand

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:23:42AM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:29 +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > On Tue 25 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:32:34PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > > On

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rsync -r --exclude /In/ --exclude /Lirsync error message that I don't understand

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 25 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote: > > > I'm getting this error message and I don't really understand what > > rsync is trying to tell me:- > > > > rsync: link_stat "/rdiffBa

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rsync -r --exclude /In/ --exclude /Lirsync error message that I don't understand

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:32:34PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 25 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote: > > > > > > BTW, is there a reason why you're doing -r and not -a ? > > > > > I don't want some of the options that -a gives me, in particular n

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rsync -r --exclude /In/ --exclude /Lirsync error message that I don't understand

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:31:37PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 25 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > On Tue 25 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote: > > > > > > > I'm getting this erro

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rsync -r --exclude /In/ --exclude /Lirsync error message that I don't understand

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 25 Mar 2008, Chris G wrote: > > > I'm getting this error message and I don't really understand what > > rsync is trying to tell me:- > > > > rsync: link_stat "/rdiffBa

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rsync -r --exclude /In/ --exclude /Lirsync error message that I don't understand

r=2.6.9] Can anyone explain what it's saying please. /rdiffBackup/gradwell/Mail/ does exist and is readable by the user running rsync. Oh, this is rsync 3.0.0 and the command line is:- rsync -r --exclude /In/ --exclude /Li/ --exclude /Tm/ /rdiffBackup/gradwell/Mail/ /home/chris/MailArchiv

Re: Bad habits

> It's opposite to mine. ;-) > > If a person wants to post to the list, let them subscribe. > They can always unsubscribe easily enough. > > 99% of mailing lists and forums work that way I've found. > There are certainly *very* few lists that allow non-subscrib

Re: Rsync 3.0.0 released

ee rsync 3.0.0 as I've been using the release candidates for a while now to enable me to run backups to a CIFS mounted NAS system where 2.6.9 wouldn't work. So thank you all! :-) -- Chris Green -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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