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Can someone explain to me what is happening here: ~ $ touch foo ~ $ ln foo bar ~ $ ls foo bar bar foo ~ $ mv foo bar ~ $ ls foo bar bar foo I try to move a file over a hard linked copy of itself and the move fails, but there is no error. Is this the intended behavior? -- Ben Escoto

A while back, I asked if there had been any consideration in making rsync support direct ssl (as opposed to just ssh). I've been looking around for a secure way (e.g. encrypted, so passwords are never in the clear, and even content is obscured from sniffers) to allow a set of limited-trust users (limited-trust being defined as mostly customers, whom you trust with their own data, but not with

If I want to make sure a file has really been deleted do I have to: 1. fsync the file 2. fsync the directory the file is in 3. both? Much thanks. -- Ben Escoto

...record the rest in, I suppose, special extra files on the receiving end. So, what would the format of these files be? For instance, it seems that the speed gains from fixed record lengths wouldn't outweigh the loss of flexibility. Would XML be overkill? Thanks for any insight. -- Ben Escoto -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/attachments/20021123/7ea4c6b0/attachment.bin

Hi, I am thinking about a non-standard usage of rsync (at least not mentioned in the man file) I want to synchronized my collegues home directories(trees) each night AND store rsync's internal updating commands (reversed) to be able to restore the state of a directory the day before. This would require - saving the internal updating commands in a separate directory - reversing these commands

...r do all/most filesystems behave the same way? Sorry if this is common knowledge, but I googled for a while and couldn't find anything. If it matters, I am trying to make sure a backup program (see http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu) doesn't lose data. Thanks for any information. -- Ben Escoto

I've looking into the possibility of using rsync for mirroring where we are currently using iOra. It looks like iOra has two main advantages over rsync: 1) can calculate deltas across multiple files (i.e., blocks common to two files will only appear once in the delta) 2) can de-couple delta calculation and application (creates deltas offline) I'm pretty sure I can emulate (1) by

I understand why the following happens ($.proto delegates to get, which ascends the parent hierarchy up to globalenv()), but I still find it anti-intuitive: > z <- 1 > y <- proto(a=2) > y$z [1] 1 Although this is well-documented behavior; wouldn't it uphold the principle of least surprise to inherit instead from baseenv() or emptyenv()? (See attached patch.) Spurious

Hello, I am a french student and I have written a technical report on an extension of the rsync algorithm to crypted files. I started from the situation of a client machine A user who doesn't wish to save an original file v0 and its successive versions v1 v2 v3 ... on a distant server B but rather to save the private ciphering of these files on the server. Let C be the cipher algorithm and

hello, I'm new to this list. here is my question: I would like to synchronize two computers (say the home one and the job one) using zip drives or similar (cdroms, etc), since modem lines are quite slow and expensive (in Italy). I though I could produce the "signature" of files on home computer, store it on a zip, go to job, run rsync to copy the missing or altered files on

I have 2 drives in a Linux 7.1 server , 1 primary and 1 secondary. I am trying to clone to the secondary slave drive and be take the primary out and change the slave to primary and boot from it. The problem I am having is that it the copied drive will not boot, It is not getting the lilo boot and config properly. When I try to boot the copied drive , it boots to a Blank screen with an

This draft patch adds support for transferring extended attributes with a new --xattr option. It ought to work on Linux with XFS or ext2/ext3 filesystems with the SGI/bestbits attribute system. It is partially working, but there seems to be some kind of hang bug while transferring the file list. I suspect it might be provoking a problem in io.c. You need to rerun autoconf, autoheader and

Hello, I am the guy behind the ext2/ext3 patches for Extended Attributes and ACLs, and I've recently been asked about ACL support in rsync by Eric. Upon investigating I found that you have an ACL patch against rsync-2.5.5 [1]. I also found some other postings to rsync@lists.samba.org concerning rsync and ACLs [3]. Are there any plans for finalizing an integrating that rsync ACL patch? I