link-dest on mac with samba share

2008-05-12 Thread Ramkumar Santoshi
Hi all. I did some testing and had rsync backup a folder, and then hard link files when doing incremental backups. The problem now is that it doesn't seem to work when the destination and --link-dest is a samba share. On the local machine, it worked all ok, but since changing the destination to

Re: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes

2008-05-04 Thread Ramkumar Santoshi
: > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:38:12PM +1000, Ramkumar Santoshi wrote: > > I'm pretty sure i grabbed the one from the build dir. Is there any way > i > > can tell? > > You can look at the size and/or see if "file rsync" output "stripped" or > "

Re: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes

2008-05-01 Thread Ramkumar Santoshi
Thanks Wayne. I'm pretty sure i grabbed the one from the build dir. Is there any way i can tell? On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:05:07AM +1000, Ramkumar Santoshi wrote: > > On Mac OS10.4, using rsync

Re: rsync copying over existing files

2008-05-01 Thread Ramkumar Santoshi
that one. thanks! On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 02:21:20PM +1000, Ramkumar Santoshi wrote: > > When using rsync 3.0 to sync files between 2 local directories, it > > works as i expect it, but when the de

rsync copying over existing files

2008-04-29 Thread Ramkumar Santoshi
Hi again all.. When using rsync 3.0 to sync files between 2 local directories, it works as i expect it, but when the destination folder is a mounted smb share, it always copies over the files even though they already exist on the destination. Any ideas on why this is happening? even using the sam

writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes

2008-04-28 Thread Ramkumar Santoshi
Hi All. On Mac OS10.4, using rsync 3.0, it stops during a transfer. I mount an SMB share, and then use the line: sudo rsync -avhi --delete --stats --timeout=360 --progress --log-file=/Volumes/backup/20080429/rsynclog.txt --exclude="*:*" /Volumes/RAID_One /Volumes/backup/20080429 There's a few t