Re: silent data corruption with rsync

2014-03-11 Thread Leen Besselink
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:52:51AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 03/11/2014 11:02:28 AM, Sig Pam wrote: > > Hi everbody! > > > > I'm currently working in a project which has to copy huge amounts of > > data from one storage to another. For a reason I cannot validate any > > longer, there is a ro

Re: Moving/merging a filesystem back into /

2013-12-08 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 11:38:26AM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2013-12-04 3:43 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > >I'd do it with the system *up*, and, as someone else suggested, copy > >/usr to /usr.tmp (assuming you are moving from /usr to the root fs. > > > >For that matter, is there a reason not t

Re: Moving/merging a filesystem back into /

2013-12-07 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:34:16AM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2013-12-07 10:16 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: > >The only way cp is going to corrupt files is if you have bad RAM in > >the system and in that case rsync probably will too. > > I said that this person said that cp will silently copy CO

Re: Moving/merging a filesystem back into /

2013-12-02 Thread Leen Besselink
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 04:49:49PM -0500, Kevin Korb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A little Gentoo specific info here... > > On 12/02/13 16:24, Leen Besselink wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:31:23PM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: &g

Re: Moving/merging a filesystem back into /

2013-12-02 Thread Leen Besselink
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:31:23PM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > Hello, > > I'm going to be moving a filesystem around, and was planning on > using rsync to do it, so like to get some advice from those more > experienced than I (both using rsync, and moving filesystems)... > > I currently have a

Re: rsync + tar archive performance

2012-02-24 Thread Leen Besselink
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:16:16PM +0100, Bartlomiej Radziszewski wrote: > On 02/24/12 14:46, Leen Besselink wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 01:45:13PM +0100, Bartlomiej Radziszewski wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >> Hi, >> >>> I have issue with taring speed

Re: rsync + tar archive performance

2012-02-24 Thread Leen Besselink
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 01:45:13PM +0100, Bartlomiej Radziszewski wrote: > Hi, > Hi, > I have issue with taring speed on the directory created over rsync. > > I'm putting directory on a system using rsync (rsync -rv) then tarred it > then puting the same directory on the server again using cp (

Re: rsync pauses

2011-08-31 Thread Leen Besselink
On 08/31/2011 04:38 PM, Justin T Pryzby wrote: > I assume it's doing I/O, you can start a strace on the process to see > for sure. Note that the rsync client usually forks a few times, so > you may want to strace all of them (strace -p X -p Y -p Z), or launch > the command under strace (strace -f

Re: Rsync with SSH through Verizon FIOS Firewall

2011-07-19 Thread Leen Besselink
On 07/19/2011 08:27 PM, John Scanlan wrote: > Hello there everyone. I'm trying to set up a server that will "push" > via rsync every night to a server in my home. The verizon firewall is > quite robust, and it makes connecting a bit tricky. Does anyone have > any tips on how I might set this up?

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

2011-07-11 Thread Leen Besselink
On 07/11/2011 10:57 PM, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > Hi once more, > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Donald Pearson wrote: > >>> I am looking to do state-full resume of rsync transfers. >>> >>> My network environment is is an unreliable and slow satellite >

Re: rsync on mounted windows partitions: I/O errors

2010-08-25 Thread Leen Besselink
On 08/25/2010 02:38 PM, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:07:29PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:02:29PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> My backup script fails to

Re: rsync on mounted windows partitions: I/O errors

2010-08-25 Thread Leen Besselink
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:02:29PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > Hi, > > My backup script fails to --delete because it gets some I/O errors from > mounted live windows partitions with (locked?) files. > > Is there a workaround for that problem, short of --ignore-errors which > would be l

Re: rsync over ssh - possible attack vectors

2010-04-18 Thread Leen Besselink
On 04/16/2010 04:10 PM, g. sullivan wrote: Am 4/16/2010 10:37 AM, schrieb Leen Besselink: On 04/16/2010 02:16 AM, George Sullivan wrote: Hello everybody! Hello George, I'm no regular rsync-developer, but I like you paranoia so I'll answer with what I know. I'll start

Re: rsync over ssh - possible attack vectors

2010-04-16 Thread Leen Besselink
On 04/16/2010 02:16 AM, George Sullivan wrote: Hello everybody! First my setup: I connect from Debian Lenny to Ubuntu Karmic with a command like: us...@localserver:$ rsync -rtcve ssh us...@remoteserver:/.../ /local/.../ (using default versions of ssh and rsync in the vendor repos, ssh with passw

Re: How to use ionice?

2009-07-09 Thread Leen Besselink
Ed W wrote: > Hi, I need to rsync a remote live server to a local backup machine. The > local backup machine is starting the rsync on scheduled basis (ie > pulling from the remote) and I would like it to reduce the load on the > remote live server by using nice/ionice at the far end. I'm connect

Re: sync performance falls off a cliff

2009-07-05 Thread Leen Besselink
> > > >I'm no expert, but I suggest using rsync 3.x (3.0.6 for example), it > >doesn't keep the as much information of the filelist in memory. > > Yes. Or at lease it starts transfers much faster, because it doesn't > wait for the full list to be completed. > > >It's probably swapping to disk

Re: sync performance falls off a cliff

2009-06-30 Thread Leen Besselink
Mike Connell wrote: > Hi, > Hi again Mike, > I don't see how to reply to your post so it shows up as a reply > on the list. So I guess I'll just send email directly to you. > You just e-mail rsync@lists.samba.org instead of me. :-) > Today I've been watching the production 2.6.8 rsync off a

Re: sync performance falls off a cliff

2009-06-30 Thread Leen Besselink
Mike Connell wrote: > Hi, > Hi Mike, > I've got identical servers. One is primary the other is backup > receiving rsyncs from the primary. I'm backing up a file system to > disk and the files are small and there are lots of directories. > > The overall problem seems to be the total number of

Re: Possibility to porting Rsync to NT and other platforms

2009-06-12 Thread Leen Besselink
Jamie Lokier wrote: > There is actually a threaded-rsync patch, at least in rsync-2.6.7. > (I haven't checked if rsync-3.x has a threaded patch). > > I use it every day on uClinux, where fork() is not possible. (The Ahh, I didn't know that or checked that (yet). > Threads are also needed on VM

Re: Key for high CPU usage

2009-06-10 Thread Leen Besselink
Leen Besselink wrote: > Daniel.Li wrote: >> Dear List, >> >> I'm trying to take a closer look at rsync code, and found when we run >> daemon, it will take a lot of CPU (400Mhz). So I'm interested in Which >> part of rsync code on ver 3.0.5 consuming CPU a

Re: Key for high CPU usage

2009-06-10 Thread Leen Besselink
Daniel.Li wrote: > Dear List, > > I'm trying to take a closer look at rsync code, and found when we run > daemon, it will take a lot of CPU (400Mhz). So I'm interested in Which > part of rsync code on ver 3.0.5 consuming CPU a lot? > > Can anyone here help to lighten me up? So I can try to improv

Re: Possibility to porting Rsync to NT and other platforms

2009-06-10 Thread Leen Besselink
John E. Malmberg wrote: > Hasanat Kazmi wrote: >> Hello, >> I am looking into possibilities of porting RSync for windows. Does >> anybody >> have an idea that which libraries and dependencies RSync uses which >> can not >> be compiled on windows (so thats why we use cygwin) > > I have not looked a

Re: rsync --daemon. Can I open more than one instances?

2009-06-08 Thread Leen Besselink
Rahul Nabar wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Daniel.Li wrote: > >> I think multi-client can improve performance, but limit is the same as >> above. > > I don't think I understand! Can I start more than one "rsync --daemon" > instances then? > > >> What kind of performance you are conce

Re: rsync 3.0.x with Windows VSS-support

2009-06-08 Thread Leen Besselink
Ryan Malayter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Leen Besselink wrote: >> For people who don't know what it does, it implements backup of open files >> on Windows with rsync. > >> My hope is to get something that works so well to have it included it in the

rsync 3.0.x with Windows VSS-support

2009-06-03 Thread Leen Besselink
to possible include it. Have a nice day, Leen Besselink. -- 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