Re: Win2k, rsync, and ssh on cygwin

2003-01-14 Thread Greger Cronquist
Does the actual transfer work, apart from taking a lot of time? If so, then the behavior is normal for rsync. What happens is that rsync sends a lot of small packets containing checksums, which is very expensive on cygwin/windows. If you want, I can send you patched sources (from Craig Barratt ori

Re: Rsync --daemon v 2.5.5 v26 causing kernel panic

2003-01-14 Thread Edward King
Just did a successful rsync -- problem was with reiser filesystem. Moved all files off the raid, ran reiserfsck with --rebuild-tree (fix-fixable was not enough), ran rsync after rebuild finished -- no problems. There were a number of files that the rebuild-tree found that weren't attached E

Re: Rsync performance increase through buffering

2003-01-14 Thread Dave Dykstra
Craig, I'd like to get your patch into the 2.5.6 patches directory. Could you please make sure it applies cleanly onto version 2.5.6pre1 (see news on http://rsync.samba.org home page if you haven't been following the mailing list) and repost it? Thanks, - Dave Dykstra On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:

specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew J. Schorr
Hi, I don't want to start another --files-from war, but I am attaching an updated version of my patch to allow you to specify a list of files to transfer. The normal rsync syntax allows you to specify a list of SRC files to transfer on the command line. This patch adds some new options to allow

2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 in popthelp.c on use of sprintf

2003-01-14 Thread Dave Dykstra
2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 gcc with these errors popt/popthelp.c: In function `singleOptionDefaultValue': popt/popthelp.c:137: invalid operands to binary + popt/popthelp.c:141: invalid operands to binary + popt/popthelp.c:145: invalid operands to binary + popt/popthelp.c:149: inv

.rsync-/.rsync+ patch and --link-dest example

2003-01-14 Thread John Bowman
This is a patch to add an --rsync-exclude option to rsync-2.5.6cvs. File names in .rsync- (or .rsync+) are excluded (or included) from the file lists associated with the current directory and all of its subdirectories. This has advantages over --cvs-exclude for backing up large file systems sinc

Re: configure issue (ac_cv_lib_inet_connect) on DYNIX/ptx

2003-01-14 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:03:23PM -0500, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote: > Greetings - > > In trying to get rsync-2.5.6pre1 working on DYNIX/ptx, I found I > needed to pass ac_cv_lib_inet_connect=no to configure in order for > it actually create a properly configured config.h fil

Question

2003-01-14 Thread Jennifer Lu
Hi, I got the following error messages when ran rsync2.5.5 on Solaris5.9, I have used this version for a long time until this week, I got the following errors: ERROR: out of memory in string_area_new buffer rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(232) rsync: conne

Live DB backups with rsync?

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Mallett
Is it possible to do live backups of a running DB with rsync??? I was just talking to livevault.com & they (only on win boxes) say they can grab changes from a client's live DB & sync them remotely. It sounded like BS to me, but I'm neither a DB guy or sync'ing expert. Steve Mallett -- To unsu

Re: 2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 in popthelp.c on use of sprintf

2003-01-14 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:24:04AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > 2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 gcc with these errors > popt/popthelp.c: In function `singleOptionDefaultValue': > popt/popthelp.c:137: invalid operands to binary + > popt/popthelp.c:141: invalid operands to binary + > popt/p

Re: Live DB backups with rsync?

2003-01-14 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, 2003-01-14 15:44:26 -0400, Steve Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it possible to do live backups of a running DB with rsync??? > > I was just talking to livevault.com & they (only on win boxes) say they > can grab changes from a client's live DB & syn

Re: The behavior of "-u/--update" option on directories

2003-01-14 Thread Aaron W Morris
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 22:46, Florian-Daniel Otel wrote: > > Aaron, > > Aaron Morris writes: > > rsync is just doing what your are telling it to do. Update if the file > > is changed or does not exist on the remote side and delete if it no > > longer exists on the local side. > > Yes, I can

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:02:44AM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote: > I am attaching an updated version of my patch to allow you to specify > a list of files to transfer. Cool. I'm looking into making this work when fetching files. Towards that end, I'd like to suggest an alternate command-line sy

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:21:29PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:02:44AM -0500, Andrew J. Schorr wrote: > > I am attaching an updated version of my patch to allow you to specify > > a list of files to transfer. > > Cool. I'm looking into making this work when fetching f

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew J. Schorr
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:32:41PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > I haven't looked at the implementation, but comments on the user > interface: > 1. Yes it should take a filename or - as a parameter. > 2. I don't like the idea of skipping the SRC spec. Paths should be > relative to the

Re: The behavior of "-u/--update" option on directories

2003-01-14 Thread Florian-Daniel Otel
Aaron W Morris writes: > > > > Truth to be told, after a bit of thinking I _might_ accept the fact > > that "--update" ignores the timestamps on (sub)directories. Because > > if it didn't, if any file was "touch"-ed remotely after the last rsync > > than all subdirs, up to and including to the

rsync hanging with openssh-2.9.9p2 as the transport

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew J. Schorr
Hi, This is perhaps a stupid question. I apologize in advance if it's already been covered, but I'm stumped... I'm using rsync to backup some file systems to a remote host. The transport is openssh-2.9.9p2. The problem does not occur when the transport is rsh. I'm invoking rsync as follows:

Re: rsync] Live DB backups with rsync?

2003-01-14 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Steve Mallett wrote: > Is it possible to do live backups of a running DB with rsync??? > > I was just talking to livevault.com & they (only on win boxes) say they > can grab changes from a client's live DB & sync them remotely. > > It sounded like BS to me, but I'm neither

Re: .rsync-/.rsync+ patch and --link-dest example

2003-01-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:48:31AM -0700, John Bowman wrote: > This is a patch to add an --rsync-exclude option to rsync-2.5.6cvs. > File names in .rsync- (or .rsync+) are excluded (or included) from the file > lists associated with the current directory and all of its subdirectories. > > This h

Re: 2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 in popthelp.c on use of sprintf

2003-01-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:20:43AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:24:04AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > 2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 gcc with these errors > > popt/popthelp.c: In function `singleOptionDefaultValue': > > popt/popthelp.c:137: invalid operands to binary

Re: Question

2003-01-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:11:20AM -0800, Jennifer Lu wrote: > > > Hi, > > I got the following error messages when ran rsync2.5.5 on > Solaris5.9, I have used this version for a long time > until this week, I got the following errors: > > ERROR: out of memory in string_area_new buffer > rsync

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:32:41PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > 1. Yes it should take a filename or - as a parameter. > 2. I don't like the idea of skipping the SRC spec. Paths should be > relative to the SRC. If somebody wants to use full paths they > can always have a SRC of

Re: Live DB backups with rsync?

2003-01-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:44:26PM -0400, Steve Mallett wrote: > Is it possible to do live backups of a running DB with rsync??? > > I was just talking to livevault.com & they (only on win boxes) say they > can grab changes from a client's live DB & sync them remotely. > > It sounded like BS to

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:57:51PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:32:41PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > 1. Yes it should take a filename or - as a parameter. > > 2. I don't like the idea of skipping the SRC spec. Paths should be > > relative to the SRC. If s

Newbie question - does it work with Sun Cobalt RaQ550?

2003-01-14 Thread Majorosi.net - Stéphane
  Hi,   I'd like to know if RSYNC work on a Sun Cobalt RaQ550. Does someone trid it? If yes, please let me know if I can take contact with you.   Stephane

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:35:40PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > Absolute paths are bad news here. Especially when dealing with an > rsync daemon. Yes, this is something that needs to be dealt with for daemon mode since it does not appear to have been possible to specify multiple filenames to pull b

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 06:41:22PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:35:40PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > Absolute paths are bad news here. Especially when dealing with an > > rsync daemon. > > Yes, this is something that needs to be dealt with for daemon mode since > it do

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Lee Eakin
FYI, pulling multiple files from a daemon currently supported (well, it works). Given a package of foo you can specify: rsync -av 'remote::foo/file1 foo/file5' /tmp It appears the daemon does proper splitting based on either white-space, or possibly the current value of $IFS in the daemon's en

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:02:58PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > Up till now rsync hasn't touched anything outside of the paths > specified on the command-line. Changing that would mean access to > rsync via ssh would no longer be restricted, just disabled. Are you saying that some people have speci

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:15:02PM -0600, Lee Eakin wrote: > FYI, pulling multiple files from a daemon currently supported (well, it > works). Given a package of foo you can specify: > > rsync -av 'remote::foo/file1 foo/file5' /tmp Oh! I had left off the repeat of the module name when I tried

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:39:49PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:02:58PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > Up till now rsync hasn't touched anything outside of the paths > > specified on the command-line. Changing that would mean access to > > rsync via ssh would no longer be

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Lee Eakin
Please pardon my butting in again. I am not a developer, but I am very interested in this option because I've need it in the past and had to work around the lack of it with include/exclude options (I wanted to sync only a few files from a large directory, and needed it to work via the daemon for a

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:01:47PM -0600, Lee Eakin wrote: > Please pardon my butting in again. I am not a developer, but I am very > interested in this option because I've need it in the past and had to work > around the lack of it with include/exclude options (I wanted to sync only > a few files

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Lee Eakin
---begin quoted text--- > From: jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:07:58 -0800 > > Nope. The files-from contents needs to passed on stdin otherwise > we would hit command-line length limits. That is why i'm > stressing the fact that allowing paths not within the source >

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:15:42PM -0600, Lee Eakin wrote: > ---begin quoted text--- > > From: jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:07:58 -0800 > > > > Nope. The files-from contents needs to passed on stdin otherwise > > we would hit command-line length limits. That is wh

Re: specifying a list of files to transfer

2003-01-14 Thread Lee Eakin
> From: jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:33:46 -0800 > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:15:42PM -0600, Lee Eakin wrote: > > ---begin quoted text--- > > > From: jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:07:58 -0800 > > > > > > Nope. The files-from conten

Re: Please test rsync-2.5.6pre1

2003-01-14 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:15:47AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > The first rsync-2.5.6 pre-release version is now available at: > > ... > > * Updated included popt to the latest vendor drop, version 1.6.4. > (Jos Backus) Latest version of popt is 1.7: ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm

Re: 2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 in popthelp.c on use of sprintf

2003-01-14 Thread Albert Chin
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:28:04PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:20:43AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:24:04AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > 2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 gcc with these errors > > > popt/popthelp.c: In function `singleOptionDef

Re: 2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 in popthelp.c on use of sprintf

2003-01-14 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:28:26PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:28:04PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:20:43AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:24:04AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > > 2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 gcc with

Re: [rsync] Re: [rsync] Please test rsync-2.5.6pre1

2003-01-14 Thread Scott Evans
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:59:47PM -0500, Scott Evans wrote: > > > > Known issues that will probably need to be resolved before the final > > > > release: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Is there any interest in trying to hunt down the "linux -> cygwin > > > rsync hanging" problem I'm consistently s

umask for rsync

2003-01-14 Thread Aaron Morris
I have another small feature suggestion, it should not cause such a stir as the whole "file list" issue (I kind of wish I never said anything about it :) ). What about adding a "UMASK" setting to rsync (for use on the command line and/or perhaps rsyncd.conf)? I realize that it may be a proble