Is this the best way to combine --times and --link-dest along with a de-duplicator?

2023-07-08 Thread Andrew Gideon via rsync
I'm copying files using --link-dest to avoid duplication. I'm also using a de-duplicator (rmlint) to further reduce duplication. For files that are duplicates, I've rmlint set to use the timestamp of the oldest file. This ends up with starting conditions where the source of a copy might have bee

copy-links with remove-source-files doesn't remove the source links

2020-01-06 Thread Andrew Hewus Fresh via rsync
t dst/link content $ I was expecting, and hoping, that it would remove the src/link symlink, but as described in the above bug report, that doesn't happen. Thanks for your time. l8rZ, -- andrew - http://afresh1.com A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed pap

Re: --link-dest. Time to 'building file list' incrementing

2019-01-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan via rsync
On 8/1/19 8:56 pm, John Simpson via rsync wrote: > Any ideas anyone? How about using snapshots and doing the rsync off those? https://www.thewindowsclub.com/vss-volume-shadow-copy-service https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/josebda/2007/10/10/the-basics-of-the-volume-shadow-copy-service-vss/

Re: Exclude and delete or not delete

2018-12-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan via rsync
Hi, On 5/12/18 12:36 am, Fabian Cenedese via rsync wrote: > I'm looking for a way to exclude and delete some items but not delete > other items. Use case: > > I'm on Windows where there are folders like recycle.bin and system > volume information on every drive. I can exclude them while backing >

rsync -- new feature option... (request)

2018-04-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan via rsync
Hi, NB: I am only subscribed because the list doesn't allow non-subscribers to post by default. I find that a bit strange, especially for such a low volume list. Okay, I've thought about this for a while. Let's say you do an rsync as a dry run (deliberately), why not allow a state file to be sa

Re: rsync --link-dest and --files-from lead by a "change list" from some file system audit tool (Was: Re: cut-off time for rsync ?)

2015-07-16 Thread Andrew Gideon
anges to the "live" data), the snapshot would fail. For my purposes, I'd want the new write to fail instead. Destroying snapshots holding backup data didn't seem a reasonable choice. How does btrfs deal with such issues? - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most r

Re: Fwd: rsync --link-dest and --files-from lead by a "change list" from some file system audit tool (Was: Re: cut-off time for rsync ?)

2015-07-16 Thread Andrew Gideon
sabled on a per-volume basis. That would work for us. Is there a way to save cycles by offering zfs a hint as to where a previous copy of a file's blocks may be found? - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or cha

Re: rsync --link-dest and --files-from lead by a "change list" from some file system audit tool (Was: Re: cut-off time for rsync ?)

2015-07-13 Thread Andrew Gideon
em that can do what hard links do, but at the file page level. I imagine that this would work using the same Copy On Write logic used in managing memory pages after a fork(). - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or chang

rsync --link-dest and --files-from lead by a "change list" from some file system audit tool (Was: Re: cut-off time for rsync ?)

2015-07-13 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 02:19:23 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: > Look at tools like inotifywait, auditd, or kfsmd to see what's easily > available to you and what best fits your needs. > > [Though I'd also be surprised if nobody has fed audit information into > rsync before; y

Re: cut-off time for rsync ?

2015-07-12 Thread Andrew Gideon
s which is the immediate need being discussed. On the other hand, this isn't free either. I imagine that there's some crossover point on one side of which scanning is better and on the other auditing is better. - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitt

Re: Rsync ACLs over NFSv4 to EXT4 - rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr - Operation not supported

2015-03-11 Thread Andrew LaPierre
Thank you, that's a good idea. I should have thought outside of the box to begin with! :-) -- Andrew LaPierre Information Technology Director Georgia-Cumberland Conference On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > &g

Rsync ACLs over NFSv4 to EXT4 - rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr - Operation not supported

2015-03-11 Thread Andrew LaPierre
I think this is an NFS or ext4 question, but wanted to post this here for a sanity check. :) I've been searching for over a week for a solution and have turned up nil. I'm trying to rsync with options -AX over an NFSv4 mount TO an ext4 drive FROM an ext4 drive and both have acl and user_xattr enab

Preserve ACLs Changing Group. File Cannot Be Opened on Destination

2015-02-18 Thread Claus, Andrew
ith setfacl -m g::--- solves my problem, but this is not a long term solution. Thanks, Andrew -- 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

Preventing an atomic copy

2015-02-02 Thread Andrew Hamer-Adams
We require an option that forces rsync to truncate the destination file to zero bytes, using the existing inode, before copying (non-atomic). For various important reasons, we cannot use —inplace as an option due to the way the filesystem we use handles a retrieve from tape. Using —temp-dir as

Re: Preserve ZFS ACLs when syncing to Linux (ext4)

2014-09-26 Thread Andrew Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Philipp Tölke" > To: "Andrew Martin" , rsync@lists.samba.org > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 11:20:14 AM > Subject: Re: Preserve ZFS ACLs when syncing to Linux (ext4) > > Hi, > > Please keep the

Re: Preserve ZFS ACLs when syncing to Linux (ext4)

2014-09-24 Thread Andrew Martin
:$INDEX_ALLOCATION") failed: Bad file number (9) Is there a way I can verify that this extra metadata is being saved on the local Linux copy? Thanks, Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.sa

Preserve ZFS ACLs when syncing to Linux (ext4)

2014-09-24 Thread Andrew Martin
-super --fake-super root@solaris:/export/share /path/to/local/ext4/dir Is this possible? Thanks, Andrew Martin -- 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

Rsync OSX to FreeBSD

2013-12-22 Thread Andrew
Hello. I'm using rsync as a backup solution, from: Mac OS X 10.8 HFS+, rsync 3.0.9 to: FreeBSD 9.2 ZFS, rsync 3.1.0 Is using FreeBSD and ZFS as backup storage even possible considering ZFS doesn't understand HFS extended attributes like the resource fork? If it is, what command line options sho

Re: Protocol negotiation issue in rsync (rssh)

2013-09-27 Thread Andrew Daviel
better for a new install as it seems rssh is only getting security fixes. That had me confused as the current version clearly postdates rsync 3. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada-- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https:

Re: Protocol negotiation issue in rsync

2013-09-24 Thread Andrew Daviel
nning arbitrary commands, but let them upload files with sftp/scp/rsync. It used to work - probably between Centos3 and Centos3. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/m

Protocol negotiation issue in rsync

2013-09-24 Thread Andrew Daviel
sion 26 and probably doesn't support -e.s anyway. Why is rsync ignoring the negotiated protocol version and sending unsupported options ? -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list

rsync 3.0.9 hangs when syncing from NFSv3 share - possible to retry after timeout?

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew Martin
ms like it will abort the entire sync, but I would like just skip over the bad section and continue with the rest of the backup. Is this possible? Thanks, Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.or

rsync -H option yields corrupt replicas (due to non-unique inode ids)

2013-09-05 Thread Andrew J. Romero
Hi, Our organization hosts a specialized Linux distribution. As is typical with Linux distributions, the set of files that make up our Linux distro contains a very complex web of self-referential hard links. Several other sites use our Linux distro and maintain either partial or full internal

Re: remote rsync exit code 0: is this a bug?

2013-07-11 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:46:06 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: > rsync: recv_generator: mkdir > > "/backup/host/vol/snapshot.2013.07.11.0.in_progress/live/lms/trylesson/toefl" > failed: No space left on device (28) > *** Skipping any contents from this failed directo

remote rsync exit code 0: is this a bug?

2013-07-11 Thread Andrew Gideon
of the failure). My main question is: should it be safe to rely upon the exit code of the remote rsync? I imagine that I could push the directory-renaming logic to the sending server, but this is going to introduce a new set of failure cases (eg. the renaming must be SSHed; the SSH can fail) s

Re: rsync hashing / collision handling?

2012-10-03 Thread Andrew Pennebaker
gt; Everything has it's niche. Trying to make one-size-fit-all > usually results in an unwieldy mess. Rsync is already > way, way too option-heavy, IMO. > Too true! I don't know the particulars of the rsync options, but I agree wholeheartedly in the Unix principle: do

rsync hashing / collision handling?

2012-10-02 Thread Andrew Pennebaker
versions of rsync considered using a more robust implementation of file change monitoring, like Dropbox <https://www.dropbox.com/help/8/en> does? It looks fast on my machine. -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the

Re: Help debugging an issue with --fuzzy --fuzzy and --link-dest

2012-03-23 Thread Andrew Gideon
using it isn't my machine to administer. - Andrew -- 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

Re: Help debugging an issue with --fuzzy --fuzzy and --link-dest

2012-03-22 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:23:13 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: > Assuming my expectation is correct, and that --fuzzy should have an > effect in this case, I'm wondering how best to test what's occurring. > I've tried using --itemize-changes in a --dry-run, but all it tells me

Help debugging an issue with --fuzzy --fuzzy and --link-dest

2012-03-22 Thread Andrew Gideon
me name but which is not a match, is there a way around this? That is, is there some extra option which forces the fuzzy comparison when the identified possible basis file is not a match? Thanks... Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubs

Re: ...failed: too many links (31)

2012-02-19 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:43:02 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: > I've thought of two solutions: (1) deliberating breaking linking (and > therefore wasting disk space) or (2) using a different file system. > > This is running on CentOS 5, so xfs was there to be tried. I've had

Re: With rsync --link-dest, is it possible to determine which files are new?

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Gideon
tself not working. - Andrew -- 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

Re: With rsync --link-dest, is it possible to determine which files are new?

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:07:33 -0400, Kevin Korb wrote: > If that is the only thing that is different you might be using rsync > incorrectly. And that's why you left it being reported? Interesting idea. Thanks for explaining. - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most repli

Re: With rsync --link-dest, is it possible to determine which files are new?

2011-10-22 Thread Andrew Gideon
always report a modified file as having a different inode? That takes me a "quick and dirty" solution for this. Simply do a find looking for files with a -links (link count) of 1 to see what files are newly copied in the newer directory tree. - Andrew -- Please use reply-a

Purpose of --checksum-seed ?

2011-08-10 Thread Andrew Gideon
means that the file isn't checked for changes each time rsync runs). I guess I'm vague on a lot of the ideas around the of checksums. Enlightenment would be welcome. Thanks... Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or ch

Re: ACL and link-dest

2011-05-23 Thread Andrew Gideon
ely unchanged or do you mean that nothing is changed but for an ACL, which is changed? If the latter, I believe that what you describe as occurring is the expected behavior. - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or ch

Re: ACL and link-dest

2011-05-23 Thread Andrew Gideon
ges the new copy's ACL. Does this help you? - Andrew -- 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

Re: weird result when using --link-dest

2011-04-09 Thread Andrew Gideon
ink-dest for backups too, and this lets me quickly/easily see the size of the "delta" between snapshots. - Andrew -- 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

Re: Optimising the Rsync algorithm for speed by reverting to MD4 hashing

2010-08-04 Thread andrew . marlow
#x27;t know enough about this bit of the rsync code. If it is trying to defend against this then IMO it should be using an HMAC rather than just a hash code. Assuming it doesn't need these strengths/safeguards then maybe it should use a cheaper (i.e. quicker) hashing algorithm. Regards, And

...failed: too many links (31)

2010-06-29 Thread Andrew Gideon
nc should, when faced with this error, fall back on creating a copy. But should rsync include behavior that exists only to work around a file system limit? Perhaps only as a command line option (ie. definitely not the default behavior)? Thanks... - Andrew -- Please use re

Re: rsync 3.0.7 network errors on MS-Windows

2010-06-21 Thread andrew . marlow
The machines to which I distribute have changed and the new machines have the older version of rsync, 2.6.6. The problems have gone away. This makes me wonder if it is something that was introduced after 2.6.6... Regards, Andrew Marlow Internet ja...@shareable.org 02/06/2010 13:55 To

Re: rsyncd users/passwords in a database (mysql, postgresql)?

2010-06-12 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:34:56 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > If anyone has a suggested auth method, let me know. Lifting the key-pair solution used by openssh? - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: ht

Re: rsync 3.0.7 network errors on MS-Windows

2010-06-02 Thread andrew . marlow
machines I got these errors from over a dozen today. That's more than usual but it's all random when it comes down to it. I wonder who else is rsyncing on this scale. Regards, Andrew Marlow Internet ja...@shareable.org 02/06/2010 13:55 To Andrew MARLOW cc rsync@lists.samba.org

rsync 3.0.7 network errors on MS-Windows

2010-06-02 Thread andrew . marlow
, and regardless of which operating system? Regards, Andrew Marlow ___ This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immedi

rsync 3.0.7 intermittent failures with many large files

2010-05-24 Thread andrew . marlow
makes me think that it might actually be a problem with rsync. Maybe rsync should watch out for temporary loss of network connectivity or slowness like you get in WANs sometimes. Maybe it should tolerate these sorts of errors subject to a maximum number of retries. Regards, Andrew Marlow NO

Re: Speeding rsync via externalities like file system choice

2010-05-21 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Thu, 20 May 2010 23:38:24 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: > Copying this volume takes hours...far more than other volumes of similar > size. I blame the much larger amount of directory traversal (and > comparisons between source and destination) that are occurring. BTW, running a trac

Speeding rsync via externalities like file system choice

2010-05-20 Thread Andrew Gideon
hese rsync operations? Thanks... Andrew -- 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

issues with batch mode for incremental backups

2010-04-13 Thread Andrew Pimlott
error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1619) [generator=3.1.0dev] zsh: exit 23sudo /home/andrew/src/rsync-HEAD-20100331-2202GMT/rsync -a --hard-links That's not terrible. Ideally, the "vanished" file would have been omitted

Any way to predict the amount of data to be copied when re-copying a file?

2009-11-29 Thread Andrew Gideon
il? Note that this doesn't even have to work across a network to meet my needs, though that would be ideal. I could always run it after the transfer is completed (which means I'll have both copies of the file on the same system). Thanks... Andrew -- Please use reply-all for m

Re: gnu --target-dir, how to fake with rsync?

2009-10-10 Thread Andrew Gideon
to clear that up. - Andrew -- 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

Re: gnu --target-dir, how to fake with rsync?

2009-10-10 Thread Andrew Gideon
ust coffee-deprived) to grasp this. How does having --target-dir make it possible to copy many files in a single command that was not previously possible? Is this still related to xargs use? Sorry... Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list

Re: gnu --target-dir, how to fake with rsync?

2009-10-10 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:22:11 -0400, Sam wrote: > As far as I know it's still there That's what I thought. So what is the point behind --target-dir? Sorry for the puzzlement... Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscr

Re: gnu --target-dir, how to fake with rsync?

2009-10-09 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:47:54 -0400, Sanjeev Sharma wrote: > They added the option to get cp & mv working well with xargs What happened to the -I option to xargs? This permits one to do the replacement anywhere on the command line being repeated. - Andrew -- Please use reply-

Re: LVM snapshots vs. --link-dest

2009-09-28 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:14:42 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: > I was thinking that an alternative to links, which do nothing to > preserve space when small file changes have been made, would be using > LVM snapshots. Instead of creating a new directory for a new backup, > and specifying

Re: LVM snapshots vs. --link-dest

2009-09-27 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:14:42 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: > Where this "fails" is for large files that have received small changes. > The directory containing my main IMAP account, for example, typically > generates between 1 and 2 G of daily backup data as I file mes

LVM snapshots vs. --link-dest

2009-09-27 Thread Andrew Gideon
t;little details", like assuring that there's enough space in the snapshot to handle the changes to the live volume. That's why, before I start experimenting, I thought I'd ask what others have done/tried/abandoned. Thanks... Andrew -- Please use reply-all for m

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:01:04 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: > It can also potentially be extended in other directions. For one crazy > example, the utility (or some other utility that modifies the first > utilities configuration) could listen on a port for messages from - > pres

Re: Status of running rsync

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:04:46 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > One thing you can do is > temporarily attach strace. I find lsof very informative with respect to rsync's status. - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscrib

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Gideon
tion) could listen on a port for messages from - presumably - the receiving server. That would be a way for the receiving server to tell the sender what bandwidth to consume. I'm not clear that this is an improvement over withholding ACKs, mind you, but at least it is a possibility with which

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-14 Thread Andrew Gideon
distance (ie. ingress policing on a VLAN's gateway interface). In that case, at least, it works rather well. But I don't believe I've ever tried this to throttle traffic inbound over a WAN link. - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mail

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-14 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:09:41 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > On 9/14/2009 9:25 AM, Andrew Gideon wrote: > >> So control is most effective at the sending rsync, which suggests that >> bwlimit is a good approach. But the most information is available at >> the receiving

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-14 Thread Andrew Gideon
h. But the most information is available at the receiving router, suggesting that shaping at the router is also a good approach. Interesting. - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/m

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-13 Thread Andrew Gideon
rring at a given time. - Andrew -- 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

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-13 Thread Andrew Gideon
mittedly poorly documented, but (2) quite potent. You could put the rsync traffic into a low priority queue, where it gets all the bandwidth not being used by something else. Or you could set a minimum, so that the rsync cannot be completely starved out. - Andrew -- Please use reply

Re: Using rsync for buidling Oracle standbys.

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Gideon
that Oracle has its own replication engine for this purpose. As much as I like rsync, wouldn't it make more sense to use the Oracle-provided mechanism? - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samb

Re: rsyncd always compression

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Gideon
()s the real rsync binary) if compression is set? - Andrew -- 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

Re: snapshot support in rsync

2009-08-30 Thread Andrew Gideon
consume increasing space in the underlying storage over time. If you use something other than LVM, then there is likely an equivalent to lvcreate -s. - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://list

Re: Using rsync to backup remote server as root

2009-08-30 Thread Andrew Gideon
he key pair, via authorized_keys2, has access only to the "sudo rsync" command. - Andrew -- 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

Re: rsync/ssh many different users

2009-07-19 Thread Andrew Gideon
ged from copy to copy on clients? Either way, --link-dest is your friend in this case. Or do you mean something else? - Andrew -- 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 Befo

Re: Server Reboots in Mid-Rsync

2009-07-19 Thread Andrew Gideon
vailable. Have you tried upgrading to that? Are you using 32 or 64 bit? Rsync isn't likely the issue, but perhaps volume of net or disk traffic being moved is. Have you tried limiting the bandwidth (either bwlimit or tc) to see if this makes a difference? - Andrew -- Please use

Re: (Not retransferring files deleted from destination)

2009-06-24 Thread Andrew Gideon
ns of the files be copied? I'm wondering if a timestamp mechanism (ie. using something like find's cnewer option) would be right, or perhaps a list of files and rsync's exclude-from option. - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list.

Re: rsync read block size

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew Gideon
gh, is that snapshots do use disk space at least temporarily. The more dynamic the stored content, and the longer the snapshot is required, the more space will need to be available. - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or cha

Re: rsync read block size

2009-05-25 Thread Andrew Gideon
"quiescent", but it will guarantee consistency (in the sense that the entire copy will be from a given moment in time). - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo

Any way to optimize --link-dest with lots of [small] files?

2009-05-17 Thread Andrew Gideon
onsider doing a copy w/o --link-dest, and then running a program to look for linking opportunities, but I cannot imagine that this would really be an improvement. And maybe improvement really isn't possible. But I thought I'd ask, just in case... Thanks... Andrew -- Plea

Re: Slowness and sparse files

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew Gideon
ther that rsh yielded poor results. What did you do for "simple data copy tests" that did well? - Andrew -- 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,

bwlimit only on server side

2009-03-23 Thread Andrew Gideon
(ie. "policing") to slow the client's sending). Thanks... Andrew -- 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

Re: Problem with extended ACLs in 3.0.4?

2009-03-17 Thread Andrew Gideon
s. And unfortunately (1) the handling of ACLs has changed enough that my previous work is useless, and (2) I just haven't had the time to revisit this myself. Thanks... Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or c

Re: Problem with extended ACLs in 3.0.4?

2008-11-09 Thread Andrew Gideon
is (8) machines sitting around. - Andrew -- 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

Re: Problem with extended ACLs in 3.0.4?

2008-11-02 Thread Andrew Gideon
en I run this test. [...] > > http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2006-October/016400.html > > I'll have to reread that thread. Small world. That was a previous attempt to rejoin the users of the public rsync version. - Andrew -- Please use reply-all for most replies to

Re: Problem with extended ACLs in 3.0.4?

2008-11-02 Thread Andrew Gideon
mask::r-x other::r-x [EMAIL PROTECTED] t]# - Andrew -- 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

Problem with extended ACLs in 3.0.4?

2008-11-02 Thread Andrew Gideon
:r-x other::r-x [EMAIL PROTECTED] t]# rsync --version rsync version 3.0.4 protocol version 30 Copyright (C) 1996-2008 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit file

Feature Request - recursive --delete with --files-from=

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Boettcher
es not work recursively, --delete doesnt work. Even with the line I use above I still have a problem - rsync wants to recursively scan ALL directories on $DST, very inefficient. It would be nice if it could simply ask for the files in the list, and delete anything in $DST recursively that did not fit

File locking for simultaneous rsync sessions

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Culver
up rsync, but was hoping there was something built in to rsync to avoid this added complexity. Thanks in advance for any advice, Andrew smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting

Re: Document the removal of the ACL compatibility mode

2006-12-21 Thread Andrew Gideon
ems at once? That's a nightmare, esp. for those outside of my direct control! - Andrew -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: May I merge several increment backups to one?

2006-12-21 Thread Andrew Gideon
p (excluding the first backup of any volume, of course). - Andrew -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: monthly retention

2006-11-14 Thread Andrew Gideon
nt to save every 30th daily backup for 31 days. You can also save yourself some mental effort by avoiding the phrase "rotating". One rotates tapes. Using a "to disk" tool like rsync for backup (esp. given options like --link-dest {8^) eliminates that as a consideration.

Re: change_sacl_perms() and ACLs from Solaris to 2.6 Linux

2006-10-03 Thread Andrew Gideon
all is well). But... Does the CVS version have the fix for ACL differencing too (ie. doing "the right thing" when using --link-dest and a file has changed only in its ACLs)? Thanks... - Andrew -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

Re: change_sacl_perms() and ACLs from Solaris to 2.6 Linux

2006-10-02 Thread Andrew Gideon
cond processing of the directory, which triggered the call to do_chmod(), "broke" the directory's ACL (which had been correct up to that moment). > Alternatively, Solaris senders could pretend their group mode bits were > equal to the ACL_MASK and Solaris receivers could ignore gr

Re: change_sacl_perms() and ACLs from Solaris to 2.6 Linux

2006-10-02 Thread Andrew Gideon
r ACL. Afterward, it has the wrong mask. I don't know why there is a second call to set_file_attrs() for the directory, or why it is doing something different. I also don't know how do_chmod() (which is ACL-ignorant) is changing the mask. But as I wrote, this one I'm still

change_sacl_perms() and ACLs from Solaris to 2.6 Linux

2006-10-02 Thread Andrew Gideon
r as I can tell, this is setting the mask value based upon the file's group mode. But I don't know why that would be desired. So I'm not sure what to do to fix this problem. Any help, please? I'm wondering if the test is wrong, and if it shouldn't be: racl->

Re: Solaris ACL support

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gideon
presume) will have "official" fix for ACL-diffing. - Andrew [1] I think that it fails to note the change, so the new snapshot still contains the old ACL. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Patch to handle ACL differences

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gideon
ch >> before I post it? > > That's the main user of unchanged_attrs(), so if it works well with > that, you've probably got a good patch. Okay, that's the type of in-depth knowledge I lacked. Thanks... Andrew -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://l

Re: Packages for rsync 2.6.8 with ACLs

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gideon
uot;). > > I've never seen that myself. I found out why, as I wrote via Bugzilla. At least 2.6 linuxes require the xaddrs patch. I've not tried on a 2.4 (but I will as I'm curious). Solaris does not require the xaddrs patch. - Andrew -- To unsubscribe or

Patch to handle ACL differences

2006-08-03 Thread Andrew Gideon
- besides --link-dest use - should I do to test this patch before I post it? The main change is in unchanged_attrs(), where this now can detect ACL changes. Thanks... Andrew -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http

RE: Backup Exchange mailboxes using rsync

2006-08-03 Thread Andrew Hodgson
offline backup, which involves stopping the services.  I use a program called 4files which you can search for on Google to delete old ntbackup files older than say 7 days, then you end up with 7 days worth of backups on the Exchange server and on the server you synced to. Thanks, Andrew

Re: Packages for rsync 2.6.8 with ACLs

2006-08-02 Thread Andrew Gideon
nfigure thinks that ACLs are not available (despite telling configure "--with-acl-support"). I know that Fedora Core 5 is shipping with a 2.6.8 that does recognize ACLs, but I've not yet traced down what it is doing that is different than what I'm doing. Any suggestions or pointe

Exclude again

2006-06-29 Thread Andrew Hodgson
to be excluded from the job completely, however, they still seem to be copied. Do I have a problem with either the exclude or rsync syntax? Thanks. Andrew. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/

RE: Rsyncing a very large directory tree (over 50,000 files)

2006-06-14 Thread Andrew Hodgson
-Original Message- From: Jamie Lokier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 June 2006 19:43 To: Matt McCutchen Cc: Andrew Hodgson; rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Rsyncing a very large directory tree (over 50,000 files) >Matt McCutchen wrote: >> Yes, rsync will send the comp

Rsyncing a very large directory tree (over 50,000 files)

2006-06-14 Thread Andrew Hodgson
to exclude the bin directory and anything in the binbackup directory apart from the bin directory within.   Any suggestions? Thanks. Andrew. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart

Rsync, subversion and directories

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew Crouch
txt TestA/file2.txt TestA/sync.sh I was wondering, short of moving the subversion server to the source machine, or running rsync twice and doing some output matching, how this might be accomplished? Cheers, Andrew -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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