Re: Update (Was: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.)

2001-10-24 Thread Thaddeus L. Olczyk
I forgot to mention that I am using rsync version 2.4.6.

Update (Was: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.)

2001-10-23 Thread Thaddeus L. Olczyk
Just to let people know. There are several things which I discovered but will not comment on ( for example compiling with debug options on--BTW you have to manually modify Makefiles to turn on debugging. It seems there is no option for it in configure-- and using gdb causes rsync to terminate prem

Re: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

2001-10-22 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:37:51PM +, Thaddeus L. Olczyk wrote: ... > >> I then mounted a partition of 15M on /mirror, and executed the script > >> to get an idea of how rsync behaved when it ran out space. > >> > >> rsync seems to hang in the middle of /etc . > >> df shows that only 75% of /

Re: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

2001-10-22 Thread Thaddeus L. Olczyk
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:56:42 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > think what he actually wants is $? (in csh, $status). Maybe something like most >people use: > Sigh a second mistake. I seem to be in a mistake prone state the last few days. Not a good thing when setting up a backup system. I suppo

Re: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

2001-10-22 Thread Ben Ricker
Cannot answer your other problems, but I find that the '--exclude-from=foo' where 'foo' is a file with the following: /proc /proc/* That does the trick for me skipping other directories. You can also test your rsync scripts to make sure they are excluding correctly by tacking 'n' on the end of t

Re: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

2001-10-22 Thread tim . conway
n" ' "There are some who call me Tim?" Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@lists.samba.org on 10/22/2001 10:12:41 AM Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Thaddeus L. Olczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PH

Re: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

2001-10-22 Thread Thaddeus L. Olczyk
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:12:41 -0500, Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:18:47AM +, Thaddeus L. Olczyk wrote: >... >> 5) I need to know if rsync fails. It is useless to me if it fails >> and then fails to notify me. The man pages fail to totally describe >> ret

Re: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

2001-10-22 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:18:47AM +, Thaddeus L. Olczyk wrote: ... > 5) I need to know if rsync fails. It is useless to me if it fails > and then fails to notify me. The man pages fail to totally describe > return values, but I assume that they do describe success/failure. > So I wrote a scr

Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

2001-10-21 Thread Thaddeus L. Olczyk
1) I'm a developer. 2) I use one special machine as a CVS server, generic storage ( an electronic attic ), as a web server of online documentation ( such as the python documentation, or SGI STL docs ). 3) I would like to add a hard drive to that system that mirrors the system drive. Someone sugges