combining --preallocate and --fuzzy

2008-04-03 Thread John Taylor
patch? I don.t mind doing the coding, but would love to hear some strategies on how to accomplish this goal. Congratulations on getting version 3 released! Thanks, -John Taylor -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http

Re: mirroring in both directions with rsync

2004-07-30 Thread John Taylor
Rsync is one way. If you want two-way synchronization, use unison. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ -John On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:31:20AM -0400, Matt Jaffe wrote: > When operating in daemon mode, will rsync check to see which file is newer and > decide which direction to transfer

Re: Q: Rsync, Batch: How to avoid the "password" ask ?

2004-07-01 Thread John Taylor
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:19:42PM -0600, Tim Conway wrote: > > SET BSERVER=192.168.0.102 > SET RSYNC_PASSWORD=bart2 > rsync -av --delete "/cygdrive/c/Doc/backup/Desktop/MesFavories.rar" > [EMAIL PROTECTED]::backup_pa/current/bz/favories > > This tells rsync to connect with its internal transpor

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-09 Thread John Taylor
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:42:08PM +0800, John wrote: > OpenVPN tunnels using UDP, and can survive outages that cause rsync/ssh > to hang. It also does adaptive compression - it turns compression on/off > from time to time based on current traffic. > If you are strictly using the VPN for rsync,

Re: IP not logged in log file

2004-06-03 Thread John Taylor
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:30:53AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:05:42AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I just setup rsync on Solaris 2.6 and my log file shows: > > 2004/05/28 07:54:03 [20996] rsync allowed access on module foo from 0.0.0.0 > > (0.0.0.0) > > This messag

Re: faq-o-matic gone

2004-05-27 Thread John Taylor
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:35:29PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > The rsync faq-o-matic was broken during the recent machine migration. > Since there was relatively little useful content and a lot of > unanswered or pointless questions, I am going to remove the links to > it. > > If anyone feels like

Would this patch be useful...

2004-05-11 Thread John Taylor
I am considering a patch that would exclude compressing a given list of file extensions when the -z option is used. Users may want to use -z, but not want to try to compress .gz, .jpg, .mp3, etc. type files. Rsyncd has this feature with it's "dont compress" option, but I think many users are usin

Re: Feature Request

2004-04-27 Thread John Taylor
What about returning progress status when rsync receives a SIGUSR2? It looks like there is code to return some sort of status when SIGUSR1 is sent. Is this accurate? -John On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:54:43PM -0700, Chuck Wolber wrote: > > Just built 2.6.1 and started testing it. Nice job guys.

Re: checksum mismatch???

2004-04-27 Thread John Taylor
Markus, I am seeing the exact same thing, same two checksums. The earlier file has size of 511412 and the latter 511395. Here is the difference: diff -urN rsync-2.6.1_early/util.c rsync-2.6.1_late/util.c --- rsync-2.6.1_early/util.c2004-04-22 18:17:15.0 -0400 +++ rsync-2.6.1_late/ut

Re: [PATCH] --timelimit and --stopat

2004-04-27 Thread John Taylor
Wayne, Thanks for putting this into the CVS tree. I like your improvements. -John On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:10:50PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:20:07PM -0400, John Taylor wrote: > > Upon a suggestion to improve the --timelimit patch, I have a

[PATCH] --timelimit and --stopat

2004-04-22 Thread John Taylor
Greetings, Upon a suggestion to improve the --timelimit patch, I have also added a --stopat option. You can get the patch from this URL and/or cut/paste it from below. http://www.terry.uga.edu/~jft/rsync-timelimit-stopat.patch.gz Here are the details... --timelimit=T This option all

Re: [PATCH] time limit

2004-04-20 Thread John Taylor
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:23:56AM -0400, Brian McEntire wrote: > I didn't write the patch, so I can only beg :-) ... > > That patch will be very useful to me too! > > To the patch author: would it be much more trouble to specify a stop time > rather than just a delay? If I want to backup a var

Re: [PATCH] time limit

2004-04-19 Thread John Taylor
Oops, it looks like the pasted patch is broken, but the one on the URL is ok. http://www.terry.uga.edu/~jft/rsync-timelimit.patch.gz -John -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[PATCH] time limit

2004-04-19 Thread John Taylor
Greetings, I have written a patch for rsync-2.6.1pre-2 which adds a --time-limit=T option. When this option is used rsync will stop after T minutes and exit. I think this option is useful when rsyncing a large amount of data during the night (non-busy hours), and then stopping when it is time f

want to write a patch, need help getting started...

2004-04-15 Thread John Taylor
structures, etc. Thanks, John Taylor -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html