similar to: Dirvish, --link-dest and permissions

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Hi -- I was very keen to download rsync and give it a whirl with the new --link-dest feature. However, I was terribly puzzled when I couldn't seem to get it working, even though --compare-dest with the same argument would work. It seemed like new files would be transferred even though files existed in the compare-dest/link-dest location; compare-dest would detect them but link-dest would

Hello, i'm using rsync 2.6.0 for daily-syncing some remote AIX 5.2 machine to a local linux (RH 7.3) with using the --link-dest option for saving space on incremental backups. Even if there are no changes on the AIX machine, all files are newly transferred on every new sync. My test scenario (actisi=remote aix machine, actisa=local linux machine): =====> Initial rsync [mma@actisa

When using --link-dest, this block of code in skip_file causes new copies of files to be created if source and destination file permissions differ, even if -p -o and -g haven't been specified. if (link_dest) { if((st->st_mode & ~_S_IFMT) != (file->mode & ~_S_IFMT)) { return 0; } if (st->st_uid != file->uid || st->st_gid != file->gid) { return 0; } }

I am pleased to announce the availability of Dirvish version 1.1 final. Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network backup system. With dirvish you can maintain a set of complete images of your filesystems with unattended creation and expiration. A dirvish backup vault is like a time machine for your data. New features and improvements: * Completely reworked and improved

Hello, I'm trying to do backups with rsync through ssh. This is what I wrote yet: src="/vrmd/webserver/" today=`date +%F` #link_dest="root@vm2:/vrmd/admin/backup/web/2004-09-05" link_dest="../2004-09-05" dest="root@vm2:/vrmd/admin/backup/web/$today" rsync -av -e ssh --delete --link-dest=$link_dest $src $dest in 2004-09-05 (on the dest-server) is the

Hi! It's me again with another --link-dest issue: I am using dirvish (www.dirvish.org) to create daily backup on disk images. dirvish is using rsync with --link-dest pointing to the last good image. This creates images with hardlinks to unmodified files. So far so good. Now I want to create a "current" filetree with hardlinks pointing to the last image. rsync -vaH --delete

Updated to current cvs without the --exclude-from - patch. This patch allows specifying a --link-dest path similar to --compare-dest except that unchanged files are hard-linked to the --link-dest path instead of producing a sparse tree. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: jw@pegasys.ws Remember

I was saddened to learn today that JW Schultz was found dead back on March 27th of this year. JW was a big help in the recent development of rsync and I sorely missed his presence during the last release cycle. JW was also the author of the Dirvish backup software, and Keith Lofstrom (who provided me with the sad news) has plans to put some memorial information onto the new dirvish site as

Hi all, I have installed rsync 2.5.5 as daemons on our 35 Netware servers (no 2.5.6 is yet available for Netware) and do a daily sync from a Linux Rsync client machine with 1.2 TB disk capacity. For the moment we do a daily, weekly and monthly backup on tape of this machine, but I'd like to replace the daily backups by a disc-based setup. It would be good to be able to share the

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I've got a problem for which the combination of -R and --link-dest doesn't seem to be quite enough---and I may have discovered a few small bugs as well; test cases are below. [And if someone has a scheme for doing this that doesn't involve rsync at all, but works okay, I'm all ears as well---I'm not the first with this problem.] Here's my problem: I unfortunately need to

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3175 Summary: devices and --link-dest don't seem to work together Product: rsync Version: 2.6.7 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org ReportedBy:

Since the heap statistics were added, I have viewed thousands of rsync reports (with --verbose and --stats), and not once have I had a need for them. So for me, they're just noise. Here is a 3-part patch to v2.5.6 that treats --stats in a similar fashion to --verbose in that additional --stats will get you more statistics. For this initial case, there's only one additional level of

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5665 Summary: need option to hard link from source tree to dest tree Product: rsync Version: 3.0.4 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org ReportedBy: Dave@Yost.com

On 12/18/2013, 04:00 , lists at benjamindsmith.com wrote: > I may be being presumptuous, and if so, I apologize in advance... > > It sounds to me like you might consider a disk-to-disk backup solution. > I could suggest dirvish, BackupPC, or our own home-rolled rsync-based > solution that works rather well:http://www.effortlessis.com/backupbuddy/ > > Note that with these

Using an rsync (V2.5.6, Tru64 Unix 5.1A) command of the form: rsync -avz --delete /some/dir remhost:/some/other/dir where /some/dir has about 460,000 files in it, I get: building file list ... done ERROR: out of memory in make_file rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at /usr/common/src/rsync-2.5.6/util.c(115) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes read so far)

I notice that devices are not hardlinked when using the --link-dest option, for instance: rsync -aH --link-dest=../bar/ foo/ baz/ When foo/zero is a device, baz/zero is not a hardlink to bar/zero. How come? $ rsync --version rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 on linux 2.4.x -- Russell Senior ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.'' seniorr@aracnet.com

I'm using the -A patch on v2.6.2, and I'm doing the usual "incremental backup using links" thing.??The?destination?is?a?machine?running?Fedora? (both 2 and 3), and the sources are machines running various Linuxes and Solaris. During my initial testing, I found a lot of diskspace being wasted.??I? traced this back to files being copied when a link would suffice.??I?found? that

I'm using the -A patch on v2.6.2, and I'm doing the usual "incremental backup using links" thing. The destination is a machine running Fedora (both 2 and 3), and the sources are machines running various Linuxes and Solaris. During my initial testing, I found a lot of diskspace being wasted. I traced this back to files being copied when a link would suffice. I found that