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...the basic mechanics of these options and can usually get things to work as I want, there are a couple of issues that still trouble me. First of all, the syntax. The man pages state quite clearly that this should be --exclude=whatever and I still see this being given as advice from obviously expert rsyncers. I have never got that to work and found that instead --exclude 'whatever' worked. Could someone please enlighten me as to the correctness or otherwise of these methods. Do they both work if used correctly? If so, why is this not explained in the man pages along with how to use both method...

Hi rsyncers, as subject says im trying to tunnel rsync over stunnel. After a few files downloaded the connection get stuck and rsync times out. The same thing happens with redir, but with ssh works nicely. Well i realy need to tunnel rsync over stunnel or other secure alternative ( not VPN nor ssh ). T...

Hi Rsyncers, I have now succesfully deployed rsync as a means to replicate our main production servers running SCOMBAG^D^D^D^D OpenServer. (Dont worry, we'll let the company die, and switch to something better..) To do so however, I had to split the dirs I sync (25GB orso), into smaller chuncks so it wo...

Dear Rsyncers, I'm trying to maintain a mirror of Ubuntu distribution and I had a cron job which rsynced it every night. The problem came after last reboot a few days ago -- destination directory wasn't mounted, thus wasn't accessible by rsync for writing: rsync: failed to set times on "/shar...

Hello rsyncers! PRACTICAL CIRCUMSTANCES: Backup1 shall be identical to Original. My traditional custom. NO HELP NEEDED for this. Backup2 shall only be a subset of the original, only files with a certain maximum size and filename/suffix pattern get included. For this I use rsync's filename filters and...

...op from a colleague. WHAT I WOULD LIKE Is that the directories' metadata is not updated. Except of course freshly created directories from source shall be created identical on target, and hence also their metadata. Everything else in this example is perfect! Friendly greetings to you rSyncers, Stefan Nowak

Hello rsyncers, I have long wished for a feature in rsync to detect files that have renamed on the sender side since the last time a sync was performed, and avoid transfering those files to the destination the same way it avoids transfering files that haven't changed. Example 1: a log directory (like /var/...

..., if you knew your FS was "mostly idle" the rsyncing process could only sync changed paths that have been idle more than 60 secs, to avoid rsyncing a given file (that seldom changes) more than once during a time when a user may be making rapid changes to it, but just for a short time. The rsyncer process could warn if a file has been in queue longer than a certain time, and is still hot (actively changing), or just sync it. My reason for writing this email is to solicit comments from the list. My post from April of last year received quite a few responses, but not an overwhelming number....