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Ok, I know I should probably be using dsync for this, but I'm more familiar with rsync, and didn't think this would be a problem. Here is what I am doing, and what is apparently happening (only done this once, but I'm guessing it will happen each time): rsync -avHP /mnt/vmail/example.com/user1/ /var/vmail/example.com/user1/ chown -R vmail:vmail /var/vmail/example.com Ok, so far so good, everything works fine accessing the mails (I'm using Thunderbird). Now I do another rsync, but this time I did the entire mailstore: rsync -avHP /mnt/vmail/example.c...

This is a patch to fix one annoyance of having rsync processes race: I usually keep our servers synced with the following script, run by cron. #!/bin/sh lockfile -r 2 -l 1000 /tmp/synchome.lock || exit 1 rsync -e ssh -avHP --delete zorro01:/home/\* /home >/dev/null rm -f /tmp/synchome.lock -- Sometimes my users (including myself) are in a hurry and syncronise files and directories in their homes themselves. This bypasses the lock above and two or more rsync processes are in a race. What happens is that the compe...

Hi all, Ok, I'm attempting to rsync a large datastore (email), and want to change the ownership of the target directories and files. I saw the --chmod option in man rsync, but didn't see a --chown option... What I'd like to do is something like: rsync -avHP --chown vmail:vmail /mnt/old-mail/ /var/vmail/mail/ So the ownership of all dirs and file on the target are vmail:vmail after the rsync is done (on the source they are postfix:postfix). Can this be done? This is about 350GB of stuff, so I'd rather not have to do a separate chown after the r...

Hi all, Ok, since 3.1 still isn't in stable, I'm curious if I can just find the equivalent of: rsync -avHP --delete --exclude-from '/home/user/excludes.txt' /mnt/example.com/ /var/vmail/example.com/ But that will ignore differences in permissions - ie, won't recopy everything, just because the permissions on the source are different from the permissions on the target... So, would this j...

I'm copying a partition that has a bunch of hardlink based snapshots (-aPH). I think there's about 250,000 files in each backup and between 100 and 200 snapshots. Earlier today, I saw the files had completed and it was making all the hardlinks. I thought it would be "not long" but it's been making hardlinks for 12 hours (at least). There's only 36Gb in snapshot, the

...d 0777 /mnt/C5.3_{32,64} mount -ro loop /home/amckay/Desktop/CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso /mnt/C5.3_32 mount -ro loop /home/amckay/Desktop/CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso /mnt/C5.3_64 mkdir -p /var/www/html/ks/centos/5.3/{os,updates}/{i386,x86_64} pushd /var/www/html/ks/centos/ ln -s 5.3 5 popd rsync -avHPS /mnt/C5.3_64/ /var/www/html/ks/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/ rsync -avHPS /mnt/C5.3_32/ /var/www/html/ks/centos/5.3/os/i386/ rsync -avSHP --delete --exclude "local*" --exclude "isos" rsync://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/centos/5.3/ /var/www/html/ks/centos/5.3/ chown -R apache:apache /va...

The latest rsync (2.6.5) seems to invoke the transport specified by $RSYNC_RSH differently. I have this set to point at an ssh wrapper script (which is now I noticed), and an strace shows this: [archives/silva]#root@jazzbo*> strace -e trace=process -f /opt/bin/rsync -avHP /mnt/phat/archives/silva/. root@ali:/a/ali/home/............. [...snip...] execve("/u/cameron/scripts/rsync_rsh", ["rsync_rsh", "ali", "-l", "root", "rsync", "--server", "-vlHogDtpr", "--partial", ".&...

I got this figured out much faster than I thought I would. Thanks to all of your help, Peter, Mattias, Thomas and Helmut. And Thomas, that 8 partition live OS sounds right up my alley, and I will definitely check it out. The second partition is working well with `parted' and `fdisk', so I am quite pleased. Below is, again, "what I came up with". I tried to integrate each of your