Re: reverse checksumming [technical]

2001-04-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
>>>>> " " == David Bolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin Brederlow [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > writes: >> Why not just a syntax to fetch the checksums of a file with a >> certain blocksize (which the server may honor, but

Re: rsync memory usage ...

2001-04-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The other day I was moving a lot of data from one spot to > another. About 12G in several 2G files. Anyway, I interrupted > the transfer because I'd chosen a fairly slow way of doing it, > and wanted to pick up where

Re: are redhat updates rsyncable

2001-04-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone here know if redhat linux updates can be rsynced? > If so, is it necessary to have rsh installed. > I guess what I really need is to see the commands necessary to > connect to a redhat `updates' ftp site with rsy

Re: are redhat updates rsyncable

2001-04-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Karsten Thygesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry> berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Anyone here know if redhat linux updates can be rsynced? >> > > If >> so, is it necessary to have rsh installed. > > I >> gue

Re: Compiling rsync with ssh as the default instead of rsh

2001-01-30 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Michael James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Among machines that have ssh trust but not rsh. I would like > for rsync to default to "-e ssh" without having to setenv > RSYNC_RSH /opt/bin/ssh > This is something something I expected to be a configure option >

Re: kind of negative rsync?

2001-01-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == andreas haupt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I'm new to rsync and just about to explore its > possibilities. > Is it possible to use rsync for what I would call a negative > sync by which I mean: > delete all the files on the remote site which exist o

Re: are redhat updates rsyncable

2001-01-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of those listed I want `SRPMS' `updates' and `powertools' > So just trying to see what is under updates: rsync > rsync://ftp.wtfo.com/rh70/updates/ WTFO Mirror FTP Site > Please report any problems imme

Re: How to exclude binary executables?

2001-01-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Remko Scharroo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First of all, I love rsync. After using mirror and rdist, rsync > really does it well and fast! > But there is one feature I miss in rsync that rdist has: there > seems to be no way to exclude binary executables from b

Re: reverse checksumming [legal]

2001-01-19 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Tim Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin and rsync'ers, I have to inform you that this thread is > the subject of a patent application made last year, and that > part of my last message may be covered by issued US (and > worldwide) patents. What came first,

Re: Fwd: Progress! IESG "Last Calls" for Delta, Vcdiff, Instance Digests

2001-01-18 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Tim Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Folks here may be interested in the Internet Draft "Delta > encoding in HTTP". Briefly, the idea is for a client or > downstream proxy to tell a server or upstream proxy that it > already has a particular version (specified

Re: reverse checksumming [technical]

2001-01-18 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Tim Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there. A colleague and I here at OSA have been looking at > exactly this for some time now. We have implemented two > prototypes over HTTP and have found that the number of blocks > matched is almost identical whichever w

reverse checksumming [technical]

2001-01-17 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, I looked into how to reduce the cpu/disk load on the server and how to rsync compressed files more efficiently. I found that I have to reverse the checksum algorithm to used precached checksum files on the server. Since I don't need any listing of file it reduces the protocol requirements d

Re: password and crontab

2001-01-15 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Ralph Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to configure rsync to make a backup mirror copy of > the production website onto my development machine. the problem > i am having is how to point rsync to my password file. > password file path; > /thi

Re: rsync in a batch file

2001-01-13 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Hans E Kristiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! I am working a project where I am using rsync in a batch > file, a similar example is given below: > @echo off echo Starting backup procedures cd d:\bin rsync -e > ./ssh -av "\\Downloads/" tropic.net:backup/Do

Re: Wishlist .rsyncignore files

2001-01-09 Thread Goswin Brederlow
>>>>> " " == Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 08 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: >> Hi, >> >> cvs has the nice feature that it ignores everything in >> .cvsignore in each directory. >>

Wishlist .rsyncignore files

2001-01-08 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, cvs has the nice feature that it ignores everything in .cvsignore in each directory. Does rsync has something similar or does anyone voluntere to implement it? MfG Goswin

Re: rsync and multicast

2001-01-08 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == wfrancis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fellow rsyncers, > I have many large farms of machines. Currently, on each farm, > there is a single master machine which replicates a directory > tree out to all the slaves. > The problems is that this can take quite

Re: two passwords

2001-01-05 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Rick Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello rsync gurus, Quick question: > I am trying to rsync onto a machine which requires two > passwords (using ssh as the transport). First is a regular > password, the second is a SecurID PIN. > I suspect this

Re: Include-from does not work

2001-01-04 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to mirror any i386 packages from a debian package mirror > with the following command > rsync -avvP --include-from="file" > ftp.at.debian.org::debian-ftp/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main > /mirror/debian/non-US/ma

Re: Transfering File List

2001-01-04 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Lenny Foner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:22:38 -0600 From: Dave Dykstra > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I like that idea. I would call it "--only-from". > One corner case to consider is: What happens when one of the > pathnames in

Re: Transfering File List

2001-01-04 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In versions 2.3.2 and earlier, rsync had an optimization that I > put in such that if the end of the list was --exclude '*' and > the earlier includes didn't have any wildcards, it would skip > the recursive traversal of t

Re: rsyncd.conf ?

2001-01-03 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all... > Just installed rsync and was wondering why there is not a > default rsyncd.conf file with the source ? > Where can I find one ? > Cheers Dennis man 5 rsyncd.conf EXAMPLES A simple rsyncd.conf file

Re: Transfering File List

2001-01-03 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == August Zajonc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for some interesting pointers. Unless I'm missing > something it seems that rsync will still have to go through > each filename and see if it matches --include. We're kinda > pushing it here, but have around 500,0

Re: Transfering File List

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
>>>>> " " == Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2001-01-02-15:32:35 Goswin Brederlow: >> rsync $FLAGS $HOST::debian/pool/ --include-from .filelist >> --exclude '*' $DEST/pool/ >> >> This will mirror

Re: Transfering File List

2001-01-02 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == August Zajonc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to simple transfer a list of files with no attempt to > build up huge file lists. These files will be scattered around > a directory containing around 500,000 files in total. can I > simply pass --include-file p

Increasing performace with packed files (some thoughts)

2001-01-01 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Hi, I just had some thought about improving rsync performance (reducing amount of data transfered) when dealing with packed files and would like some comments. First what is the problem with packed files? Consider two nearly identical files that dif

Hi, test, anybody there?

2001-01-01 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Just testing the subscribe.