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I am trying to use rsync 2.4.6 to try creating a backup using another locally connected hard disk. Thing copy, but sometimes the group is eith numeric (valid). Often the owner is not even shown. This is the command I use for rsync: rsync-2.4.6/rsync -arxlHpogDt /usr/ /backup/usr/ --delete I login as root. Any help would be appreciated. -- Ian Kettleborough ian@idk.com

I was planning to use rsync to backup to a second drive, but I ran out of swap space. No problem, I will let rsync do it a few directories at a time overnight when the computer usually sits idle except for incomming email. I have 2 question: 1. How much memory does each file to be copied need. Obvisiouly I have too many files. 2. Why does this command work: rsync -ax /usr/xx /backup/usr/

Available now from samba.org and all mirrors. Please report bugs, compilation problems, etc. If there are no major issues I think I will put this out as 2.5.3 shortly, because it fixes a few serious issues. Thanks to everybody who contributed patches. rsync://samba.org/rsyncftp/preview/rsync-2.5.3pre1.tar.gz\* rsync 2.5.3 (not released yet) SECURITY FIXES: * Make sure that

I am trying to exclude a few directories from being copied to a 2nd local hard disk. I have read the doc's, used the --exclude-from= to specify the filename.. but What confuses me is whether a directory listed in this file should have a trailing / on it or is the file completely different fro what I think it is. ie: /usr/src or /usr/src/ Thanks Ian

Hi - I want to use rsync in combination with a list of files it should exclude, but somewhere I seem to have a problem. The problem is that the files and directories I list in the file to be excluded are in fact synchronized on the remote server. I should add that they are not present on the remote server and shall not, thus, excluding them from synchronization. :) The "exclude file"

I'm working on trying to get rsync 2.5.6pre1 available for people to test more widely. I'm out of time for today, and I'm stuck on a problem that some machines on build.samba.org are showing on the 'chgrp' test. I can reproduce this on my home redhat 7.3 system too. It appears to be a timing problem because when I do strace -F -f on it the problem goes away. Everything seems

Dear rsync people, I have just started using rsync for backups. I have had a couple of issues. Note I'm trying to use rsync as user using ssh between two machines both running Debian GNU/Linux potato (2.2r3). The local machine is currently running 2.4.6-1 and the remote 2.3.2-1.2. 1) When I run rsync with the vv option, stuff scrolls of my screen faster than I can read it. I was wondering if

Hi. I'm trying to accomplish the following ; 1) First, I did a rsync for a file, like this /usr/bin/rsync -lptgoD --delete --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh -R --delete-excluded -vv root@127.0.0.1:/usr/local/src/* /tmp/localhost/daily.0 If I did a ls -la to the destination dir (/tmp/localhost/daily.0/usr/local/src/README) I take ls -la /tmp/localhost/daily.0/usr/local/src/ total 60 drwxrwsr-x 2 root

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}')

The attached patch makes two changes to the behavior of the -v option: 1) The initial "building file list ... done" and the last two lines with transfer statistics are moved to verbose level 2, which means that you have to specify -vv to see them. When I use -v, I only want to see which files are being updated. Perhaps the statistics could be controlled by a separate option,

I am attempting to utilize the exclude from option in my rsync configuration file (rather than maintain lists on users machines) but it does not appear to be working. One example, I placed *.mp3 in the file to keep them from syncing mp3 files to the server and jamming up space. But rsync just seems to ignore this and syncs the files anyway without any errors to the syslog. All of my

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear list members, there are two new rsync-features I made up and would like to discuss with you. If you think these new features might be useful for the whole rsync-community, please give me a note and I'll send you the patches (or post them here). 1.) Setting owner and/or group of backup files. In our servers I'm using rsync to backup

Hi again! Tomasz Ciolek <tmc@goldweb.com.au> on 13.11.2001 01:21:27 An: Thomas Schweikle <tschweikle@fiducia.de> Kopie: Thema: Re: rsync exclude/include [FIDUCIA virengepr?ft - ohne Gew?hr, da? alle bekannten Viren und deren Varianten erkannt wurden.] > Try dumoping the whole file list into a text file, prefix each one with > minus for exclude and a + for

Does rsync-2.5.5 (and ealier versions) seems to have a problem with an open socket? I finally figured out which socket to exclude. Now I get an mknod error message the first time I run rsync and the second time it runs to completion. I did know of a netstat (I think) that would show the open sockets, but I have to admit I forget.. Anyway..any ideas? Running Freebsd 4.4. Thanks Ian

I'm using version 2.6.3 on OS X. I'm trying to use --link-dest to keep some rolling backups of production websites. There is about 2GB of data in 60,000 total files. I do an initial rsync to get an initial copy of the data, and each day thereafter I run rsync again with --link-dest to create a new daily backup. For some reason, in the subsequent runs, rsync updates a whole lot of files

I have installed rsync on my PC (NT) and a windows 2000 server. It appears the 2 boxes are unable to talk. I get following errors: C:\Program Files\rsync>rsync.exe -vv test\* 172.17.13.31:C:\test opening connection using rsh 172.17.13.31 rsync --server -vv . "C:\test" > 172.17.13.31:Connection refused rsh.exe: can't establish connection rsync: read error: Connection reset

Hi all! I have a problem configuring rsync as daemon: This is my rsync.conf: log file = /var/log/rsync.log list = yes uid = nobody gid = nobody secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets [section] comment = Great stuff from remote.acme.com path = /home/repos auth users = marco hosts allow = * hosts deny = * This is my /etc/rsyncd.secrets marco:marco This is the secrets file permission: [root@server

Reading and re-reading the man page has got me nowhere with this issue and searching your site on '--exclude-from' got me to the same place. Here is the script I am using: #################################### #/bin/bash suffix=`date +%Y%m%d` echo Suffix is "$suffix" fromdir=/home/bob/ echo Source dir is "$fromdir" todir="$maxtor6"BackupOfHome

Does rsync has directory name length limit? I was trying to rsync a directory that has the name length of 34 characters and getting permission denied error. $ rsync -avz --delete --force -e ssh /usr/local/apache/htdocs 192.168.0.2:/usr/local/apache building file list ... readlink htdocs/CorporateLegalTimesEDITORIAL_files/cBug_blueXs.gif: Permission denied readlink

HI, I'm trying to exclude some files & directories from a filesystem which I would like to copy to a different site. I did: # rsync -avz --exclude-file=/fs21/tmp/perl_scripts/exclude.txt /fs22/a/circuit_design mickey.willow.com:/cpu/store/design where file /fs21/tmp/perl_scripts/exclude.txt contains the following directories and files to be excluded from /fs22/a/circuit_design :