--fuzzy enhancements: size match in all directories

2009-12-20 Thread Robert Siemer
Hello everyone, Image you rsynced your mp3 archive. Later you do some cleanup renaming and start splitting up the directory into a hierarchy and do some file move around. Data-wise you did nothing, meta-data-wise you did a lot. --fuzzy comes into mind for the next rsync. Unfortunately fuzzy match

File list and find_fuzzy() insights for algo fiddling

2009-12-20 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi! I read the source around find_fuzzy(), but got stuck in get_dirlist(). I thought the latter returns the subset of the current “global” file list of the receiver side (which is complete, or an incremental part(?)), reduced to the “same directory” restriction. Can someone enlighten me, where th

-x tries to descend into FUSE filesystems

2006-09-05 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi! I've noticed that an "rsync -avx . host:/test" tries to descend into a FUSE filesystem (on the origin/sending side). This is at least true when the FUSE is mounted by somebody else. I came accross this while my nightly backup choked on this with "Permission denied" at the mount point. FUSE i

Re: file-attr-restore and dollar signs

2006-08-31 Thread Robert Siemer
> If you run: > > file-attr-restore foo$bar > > the shell will replace $bar with the contents of the $bar shell > variable. If $bar is empty, it would run "file-attr-restore foo". > > To get around this you need to either enclose the filename in quotes > so the shell does not glob it, or turn o

Re: --fuzzy works with --link-dest?

2006-08-26 Thread Robert Siemer
> One might want fuzzy matching to visit some --*-dest dirs and not > others. It seems that detect-renamed, if enabled, should operate on > the same subset of the --*-dest dirs as fuzzy matching. Thus, maybe > there should really be alternate forms of the --*-dest options > (--fuzzy-*-dest) that

Re: --fuzzy works with --link-dest?

2006-08-25 Thread Robert Siemer
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:20:15PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > No, --fuzzy only looks in the same directory as the destination file. > There was a rather heated debate about whether it should look in > --*-dest directories on bug 3392: >https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3392 I've r

--fuzzy works with --link-dest?

2006-08-25 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi! Does --fuzzy also look for files in dirs mentioned with --...-dest? My special intrest lies in --link-dest, though. Thanks, Robert -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.h

Re: rsync freezes when copying several million files

2006-08-22 Thread Robert Siemer
> >I'm using Dirvish to backup my servers. For those who haven't heard > >about it it's sort of "front end" for rsync making a copy of the files > >for the first backup, and then copying modified files and hardlinking > >unmodified files every day. dirvish is using the services of rsync to let the

Re: Saving ownership as non-root

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi Paul, hi everyone else! (-: First, thank you for your reply on my topic! On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:24:57PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Wed 16 Aug 2006, Robert Siemer wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity: What (backup) solutions do you use to let rsync store > > devic

Saving ownership as non-root

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Siemer
Hello everybody! Out of curiosity: What (backup) solutions do you use to let rsync store device files and ownership permissions without root privileges? I found out about "fakeroot" so far. Is there actually a practical use for the "--super" option? I didn't find anything as fakeroot doesn't need