Re: copying live vmdk / vdi files

2014-04-21 Thread Donald Pearson
Think of it like trying paint a still portrait of a caffenated 8yr old with a puppy. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Simply put, you can't do file level operations on files that are > being operated on at the block level.

Re: Alternative rsync client for Windows

2014-04-10 Thread Donald Pearson
..backing up a complete Windows system and doing a bare metal restore.. That would really be something. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > That would be a big thing for me as on a Windows system my key would > be in putty's

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

2011-09-23 Thread Donald Pearson
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. Haskell wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Frank Church wrote: > > I posted a message to the list earlier about rsync's problem with a file, >> -

Re: Feature request, or HowTo? State-full resume rsync transfer

2011-07-15 Thread Donald Pearson
es, so it's definitely on a curve. I think with a combination of tuning tcp_retries2 and rsync Batch Mode I may be able to pull together a solution. Regards, Donald On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Brian K. White wrote: > On 7/15/2011 2:42 PM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > &g

Re: Feature request, or HowTo? State-full resume rsync transfer

2011-07-15 Thread Donald Pearson
e ideas coming. I am trying new angles as I come up with them, I haven't given up on this yet. Regards, Donald On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On 12.07.2011 11:10, Donald Pearson wrote: > > ... > > A 'trick' i personally use for an

Re: How to call rsync client so that is detects that server has gone away?

2011-07-12 Thread Donald Pearson
add "--timeout=" Where is how many seconds you would like it to wait before giving up. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Larry Irwin wrote: > Hi All, > I have an rsync client that is not re-starting and/or timing out when the > server processes die/go away... > The client is rsync version 3.0

Re: Feature request, or HowTo? State-full resume rsync transfer

2011-07-12 Thread Donald Pearson
n Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On 11.07.2011 16:01, Donald Pearson wrote: > > I am looking to do state-full resume of rsync transfers. > > > > My network environment is is an unreliable and slow satellite > > infrastructure, and the file

Feature request, or HowTo? State-full resume rsync transfer

2011-07-11 Thread Donald Pearson
I am looking to do state-full resume of rsync transfers. My network environment is is an unreliable and slow satellite infrastructure, and the files I need to send are approaching 10 gigs in size. In this network environment often times links cannot be maintained for more than a few minutes at a