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Is it possible to use rsync to mirror a group of files, deleteing most files from the mirror when they disappear from the source, but not deleting a certain set of files that match a pattern if they disappear from the source? Thanks. Greg Brauer greg@wildbrain.com

Dear JW, I spent hours checking and upgrading my hardware. There is nothing wrong with it. It is a 'mature' Pentium-II 400MHz system that has been running my servers WITHOUT ANY CRASHES for nearly 2 years now 24/7 Listen to me: "The crashes are dues to rsync" There is an IDENTICAL report from a totally different source at

Hi all, I want to copy files from a remote server to a local directory with ssh. I've some difficulties with that because on the Remoteserver I have a directory "/www/ftp" with a lot of subdirectories with each of them 4 other subdirectories. I want to sync only */data/* to the local machine without */images/* or */doc/* or */movies/* Any solution would be appreciated. regardsMac

I've got a patch that changes f_name_to() to return an unsigned int (like snprintf() and strlcpy() do) and adds checking to ensure that we didn't overflow the name before we try to use it: http://www.blorf.net/name-overflow.patch If anyone would care to check out the following patch before I commit it, please do. ..wayne..

Hi all, We are currently looking at a solution for backing up files on laptops to a server in a small office (10 users). I was looking at rsync as a solution. Here is my suggested solution: Install rsync on network server - this is Windows 2000 :-( Share the root of C:\ on laptops Schedule rsync to periodically mount to laptops share ove SMB (if they can be found) and running an incremental

--- exclude.c.org 2002-11-04 04:17:05.000000000 +0100 +++ exclude.c 2002-11-04 04:21:13.000000000 +0100 @@ -219,8 +219,15 @@ int fatal, int include) { struct exclude_struct **list=list1; - FILE *f = fopen(fname,"r"); + FILE *f; char line[MAXPATHLEN]; + + if( fname[0]=='-' &&

This is a patch to fix one annoyance of having rsync processes race: I usually keep our servers synced with the following script, run by cron. #!/bin/sh lockfile -r 2 -l 1000 /tmp/synchome.lock || exit 1 rsync -e ssh -avHP --delete zorro01:/home/\* /home >/dev/null rm -f /tmp/synchome.lock -- Sometimes my users (including myself) are in a hurry and syncronise files and directories in their

Hi, I would like to log whatever happens with rsync on client side when it runs with Cygwin on NT4. First, I just did a redirect of the screen output to a log-file: rsync -rtv --delete --modify-window=2 --stats /cygdrive/g/users/bco/test/ bee2bs01::d/test/ >>c:\rsync\log\%FDATE%.log The problem with this method is that it does not redirect whatever Rsync reports as errors; because they

Hello, rsync.h is always including the syslog.h file, even though it is only used when the LOG_DAEMON macro is defined. Could someone change it to be as follows: #ifdef LOG_DAEMON #include <syslog.h> #endif OpenVMS currently does not have a syslog facility, so it does not have a syslog.h. Thank you, -John wb8tyw@qsl.net Personal Opinion Only

> Hello, > I have rsync process which is a crontab job: > 0 0-23 * * * /bin/rsync -rvg /net/server1/local/filesys1/userhomedir/project_dir /local/filesys1/userhomedir/project_dir > which sync the user project dir on localsystem from another machine called server1 via nfs, but the weird thing its coping all files every time it syncs am I using the wrong flags? is it possible to copy

Hello, I'm facing a problem syncing files which is over 2GB size, eventhough i searched the archives and it been mentioned its possible if largefiles option is enabled, but still its giving me problems. i.e: building file list ... readlink dir1/oracle_data1.tar: Value too large for defined data type readlink dir1/oracle_data2.tar: Value too large for defined data type readlink

Hello when i get this message what is wrong: /PTS.0.db2inst1.NODE0000.CATN0000.20030123062324.001: Value too large to be stored in data type Regards Boris -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

I am using AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1, rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26 when rsyncing files that are larger than 2gb it dies. You get message about broken something. root limits is -1 filesystems are large file enabled. I tested this with linux to linux and it does not have this problem. any reason why it does not work in AIX? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!

Hello - I just finished doing a search of the archives and couldn't seem to get this answered. Example, I have a root directory containing the following directories: /Test1 /Test2 /Test3 I want to rsync only /Test2 and all subdirs under. So my include-from file looks like: + Test2/* - /* This doesn't work as nothing is synced, and if I do a -vv it tells me that nothing is being

I have downloaded the source for rsync 2.5.6 and compiled it without adjusting any options, no problems. Performed a test copy of a file GT 2 GB and it failed. In the file configure I changed the line to "--enable-largefile", removed all the .o files, performed a ./configure, gmake, gmake install. Tried the test copy and again received the following error message: rsync:

Has anyone an idea why i always get

Rsync Ver: 2.5.5 OS: HPUX-11 Hello List, I'm using rsync with ssh with this command line: rsync -avz -e ssh some_file user-b@hostname-b:/home/user-b Which does work, however I get the following error output: rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at main.c(578) Since the file does transfer, is the error output just some sort of bug? I looked in the maillist archives, and I found

Is there anyway to keep rsync from reporting an error when attempting to sync pagefile.sys (through a samba share)? It seems like any type of exclusion of the file gets ignored, why is that? Anyway around it? Also, of experimented with the exclude-from syntax quite a bit and haven't figure out how you could just backup all .doc files on a file system and exclude everything else. Thanks - Max

Hi, I have 2 ftp servers with 3 identical users. I want server B to be updated of server A. Whatever changes mmade by users on server A should be made on server B say every 5 hours. Is rsync the right tool to use here? Can rsync be used such that only changed files are downloaded? Thanks a lot and bye. With warm regards, -Payal -- For GNU/Linux Success Stories and Articles visit:

Hi, What are the limits to file size and file count when doing a rsync transfer using 2.5.6? I was trying to rsync about 500 GB of data with many files and many directories, but it has been stuck building the file list for several hours. First of all, is it possible to transfer 500 GB of data? Secondly, what would the limit for file count be when doing a rsync transfer? Any comments or help