similar to: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

One of the things I want to do besides mirror a hard drive is maintain an incremental backup on tape. The way for me to do this ( of course ) is to take the output of rsync and use it to generate a list of files for cpio. The basic ideal is something like this declare -i head tail # gets the first line with total: at the begining head=$(grep -n ^total: $log_rsync|awk -F: '{print $1}')

hi. I know this is a big topic on the list, please forgive me. rsync -avv --include "/film/jonah/**/sourceimages/*.tif" --exclude "*" /film /tmp i'm trying to copy all *.tif 's that are in a */sourceimages/ directory and that are only under /film/jonah. i would like to copy the directory tree and tif files to /tmp i was able to copy ever tif with: rsync -a

I have a bit of an issue with rsync. I am using to keep directories in sync via another server for backup. Here is the server config [w1] path = /w1 comment = w1 web dir [w2] path = /w2 comment = w2 web dir Now on the client i run this command rsync -avv --delete --force domain.com::w1/ /w1/ It will NOT delete anything that is no on the server anymore.. for example on the server/client there

Hi, we do a 1:1 backup from our main raid to a backup raid every night with rsync -a --delete /mnt/raid1/ /mnt/raid2 rsync is 3.09, filesystems are ext3, OS is SLES 11 SP1. The rsync process takes several hours, even if no file has changed at all. Using -vv I see that rsync compares all files every time and that takes long for some hundreds of millions of small files. Can I tell rsync it

Hope I haven't just blindly overlooked this in man rsync: 1) Some way to run rsync with any of the usual command lines but only applicable to files newer than some stipulated date.(on the source) 2) Some tricky way to redirect where the transferred files go. Example: rsync -avv source target real_destination Where all rsync computations are done comparing files in source to files in

I must be seriously misunderstanding the man page coverage of --compre-dest. My take was that if a file in compare-dest=dir matches a file in SOURCE/ then it won't be transferred to DEST/. I tried this test. (d1 has single files and 2 subdir with files) cp -a d1 d1a mkdir d2 rsync -avv --compare-dest="./d1a" d1/ d2/ d1a is carbon copy of d1 but still every last file in

rsync version 2.4.6 protocol version 24 gin@rhysling:~> rsync -avv ~/share/cvs-xemacs-head/XEmacs/xemacsweb ~/share/public_html/xemacsweb building file list ... done ... xemacsweb/About/XEmacsServices.content is uptodate ... gin@rhysling:~> ls -l {~/share/cvs-xemacs-head/XEmacs/xemacsweb,~/share/public_html/xemacsweb}/About/XEmacsServices.content -rw-r--r-- 1 gin sdu

I have a 29 Gig full backup on a remote server (lets call if fedor) that is called Kbup_1. I have a 1.3 Gig incremental backup on my local server. I have rsync 2.6.2 on both servers. Both are RedHat Linux 9.1 on i-686 hardware platforms. I issue the command "time rsync -avv --rsh=rsh --stats /test/Kibbutz/Kbup_1 fedor://test/Kibbutz". The synch takes ~5 minutes of real time and about

I have the following command: /usr/local/bin/rsync -avv 'Jeffrey?s iPhone (Root)'/ 'Macintosh HD'/Users/jeffrey/Downloads/iphone_backup Unfortunately, it's barking when it hits the "(". -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' How can I escape this? Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Getting the following error: % rsync -avv --temp-dir=/var/tmp/ --exclude-from=../kde-redhat-exclude --delete --delete-excluded rsync://apt.unl.edu/apt/7.3/ 7.3/ rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(177) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (56109 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code

I have looked on the mailing lists and through rsync documentation but those still haven't solved my problem. I may be calling rsync incorrectly but the problem I have is that the exclude file seems to be ignored. My final goal is to replicate an entire host, excluding some files that contain specific IP, hostname configuration things. I'm trying to start small by mirroring a

I'm trying to transfer something to another machine launching a once-only "daemon" through ssh with this command: rsync -avv -e "ssh -l user" ./orig/ machine::module/ where "module" is the name of a file in the home dir of user with the following: path = /path/to/home/transfer The ssh connection works without passphrase. This is the error: opening connection

Hello, I'm totally new to this list, so I hope I don't break all the rules. :) I've looked through the archives (and google), and I really can't find the answer to my question. I'm trying out the 'detect-renamed'-patch, and I've encountered some odd behavior. I've applied the patch to both rsync-2.6.9 and rsync-3.0.0pre7, and it's the same behavior.

I'm trying to understand how to properly setup the /etc/rsyncd.conf file to run an rsync daemon with a secrets file specified in a module - the rsync.conf manpage does not spell it out clearly enough. Rsync server is rsync-2.5.6. If this is my /etc/rsyncd.conf file: ------------------------------------ log file = /var/log/rsync uid = root gid = root [test] uid = rsync1 gid =

Hi, Is there a sure way to test 2 cd's if they are true copies in rsync. I have tried this... rsync -avv /mnt/cdrom/ /mnt/cdrom2 ** result....quite shotened... misc/rpm2header is uptodate pkg-9.2-FiveStar-download-i586.idx is uptodate total: matches=0 tag_hits=0 false_alarms=0 data=0 wrote 65301 bytes read 20 bytes 1789.62 bytes/sec total size is 679261427 speedup is 10398.82 ** Is

When using rsync -avv to recursively copy a local directory on a remote server, and if the remote server has a symbolic link of the same name pointing to some other directory, then that remote symlink is clobbered in favor of the hard-wired path. I looked at the man page and other rsync documentation about copying links, but not of the options seemed to apply in my case. The closest was

Hi! Is it normal to get different return codes from the same rsync command (except for the verbosity option)?? The directory where we want to rsync don't permit write operations (so we should get an "Permission denied" (23) code. Note that we "rename" the file to file2 in the destination directory. We just type: > rsync -a file server:dir_without_permisions/file2

I'm am currently setting up a simple backup system using rsync. I am backing up users home directories to a central backup machine, and then exporting those backups via NFS back to their host machines. I had this set up and working under Linux (kernel 2.4.21) but have since decided to give Mac OS X a try, and moved the system over to a brand new Xserve G5. It was actually quite painless to

Hi, I've got a Debian 3.0 machine from which I initiate rsync connections over ssh to winNT/2k boxen, where sshd is running as a service, to grab files from the windows machines. I don't get any error from either side of the connection. The directory I indicate is transferred as well as every sub directory, just not any of the files in the sub directories. The process seems to be running

I know this subject has been covered a fair bit here but I'm getting confused with the vast array of possible options I've seen in various cmdlines posted here, and the vast (and sometimes confusing) rsync manual. Can someone show me the simplest case to allow rsync to push data from a windows XP or vista machine onto an opensolaris host using rsync on cygwin? What options are commonly