Is -R --link-dest really hard to use, or is it me?

2011-04-24 Thread foner-rsync
[Yes, I am reviving a thread from 27 months ago. Why? Because I gave up on the problem way back then and didn't move the vault. Now that I'm really trying to do this, it still doesn't make any sense... :) Matt CC'ed directly since he was the primary respondent and I have no idea if such an old t

Is -R --link-dest really hard to use, or is it me?

2009-01-26 Thread foner-rsync
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:02:15 -0500 > From: Matt McCutchen > I regret the slow response. I was interested in your problem, but I > knew it would take me a while to respond thoughtfully, so I put the > message aside and didn't get back to it until now. I hope this is stil

Is -R --link-dest really hard to use, or is it me?

2009-01-11 Thread foner-rsync
I've got a problem for which the combination of -R and --link-dest doesn't seem to be quite enough---and I may have discovered a few small bugs as well; test cases are below. [And if someone has a scheme for doing this that doesn't involve rsync at all, but works okay, I'm all ears as well---I'm n

remote logging non-daemon mode

2007-12-05 Thread foner-rsync
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:21:27 -0500 > From: "Doug Lochart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Each module needs to be protected from the others so if a user logs in with > their credentials they should not have access to any other module. It > would take a user knowing the name of ano

Rsync shouldn't display a meaningless speedup on a dry run

2007-11-06 Thread foner-rsync
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:18:08 -0500 From: Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 22:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I worry about those trying to write things that parse rsync's output; > if -n changes the output format, such things will have to be test

Rsync shouldn't display a meaningless speedup on a dry run

2007-11-06 Thread foner-rsync
> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:17:32 -0500 > From: Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think rsync should omit the speedup on a dry run. The attached patch > makes it do so. I worry about those trying to write things that parse rsync's output; if -n changes the output format, suc

--hard-links performance

2007-07-11 Thread foner-rsync
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:26:18 -0400 From: "George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the program is http://www.ka9q.net/code/dupmerge/ there are 200 lines of well commented C; however there may be a bug which allocates too much memory (one block per file); so my application r

checksum-xattr.diff [CVS update: rsync/patches]

2007-07-02 Thread foner-rsync
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:18:57 -0400 From: "Matt McCutchen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The technique Wayne and I are discussing assumes only that the clock on *each side* never steps backwards. Um, and note, btw, that the pathological FSB-spread-spectrum/NTP interaction I mentioned in my

checksum-xattr.diff [CVS update: rsync/patches]

2007-07-02 Thread foner-rsync
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:18:57 -0400 From: "Matt McCutchen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The technique Wayne and I are discussing assumes only that the clock on *each side* never steps backwards. It compares the current mtime and ctime on each side to the previous mtime and ctime on th

checksum-xattr.diff [CVS update: rsync/patches]

2007-07-02 Thread foner-rsync
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 08:43:39 -0400 From: "Matt McCutchen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *Note that "now" for a particular disk may not be the same as time() if > the disk is remote, so network filesystems can be rather complicated. That's easy to fix: get your "now" by touching a fi

Problem with shared xls file. Could it be blamed on rsync?

2007-03-16 Thread foner-rsync
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:30:33 -0700 (PDT) From: syncro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks alot! That's what I wanted to hear ;) We want to have an always-up-to-date-copy thus rsync every minute and not just at night. However my preventive measure will be a forbiddance of sharing

Data Encryption

2006-06-12 Thread foner-rsync
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:01:34 -0400 From: Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 17:51 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The right solution is probably to run an encrypted filesystem on the > machine that holds the backups, and of course to use ssh getting t

Data Encryption

2006-06-12 Thread foner-rsync
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:18:00 -0400 From: Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 10:58 -0700, Chuck Wolber wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Brad Farrell wrote: > > > Is there a way with rsync to encrypt data at the source before > > transmitting? Not

Malformed Address and Private IP issue

2006-03-08 Thread foner-rsync
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:15:36 -0800 From: Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:48:37PM -0800, Jonathan Chen wrote: > 2006/03/08 11:25:12 [16976] malformed address localhost.localdomain That can't be 2.6.6 because 2.6.6 doesn't have an error message of