similar to: Rsync and Tar

During my initial download for my home directory backup, it took rsync over 6 hours to do the initial backup, but I can FTP the stuff in about 30 Mins. Is Rsync usualy this slow? I have compression turned on, and its across a 100 MB/S network, Anyone had this problem before? Steve Sills

I have hinted in the past of wanting to go to a more selective control of the output of rsync. Here it is. PROBLEMS with the existing --verbose et al. The simple incrementing verbose doesn't allow one to restrict stdout to what actually is of interest. For instance inside dirvish i don't care about directories, or any kind of non-regular file because they show up every time even if

(I'm not sending this to dirvish@pegasus because I think that this message applies more to rsync's --link-dest option than to just dirvish.) I recently noticed a huge spike in dirvish network usage and traced it to files whose permissions had been changed. (with rsync v2.5.6) I understand and agree that a --link-dest copy of a source file cannot be hardlinked to, but couldn't a

Hello. I am trying to make use of rsync for backup purposes. I want to use it with the -b switch: it renames older FILE to FILE~ instead of replacing it with the newer version. This way, only the newest and the second most recent versions of a file are saved. I want to have more versions. One approach to this can be inpired by --backup-dir operation. I'd rather extend the backup

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

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

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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, This is a newbie type'o'question so I'm most probably talking about something I know nothing about ;) Would it be possible to archive files on a removable drive, save the checksums for the archived files, and later compare existing files against the saved checksums without plugging in the removable drive? I imagine in theory this would allow for an easy incremental-backup-to-CD

--- 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]=='-' &&

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

Hi, I am currently setting up a backup script for the /home directory of a server. I send all the files on a remote machine through LAN connection using rsync to optimize bandwidth usage. The script is run as root on the server by a cron job but rsync connects to the remote machine as a normal user via an ssh key certificate. This leads to many "permission denied" errors, as the

Hi I am using rsync for backup on the disks of a Linux backup server. Obviously the server could store more data it the data were compressed. I read the "rsync -> tar" thread. Unfortunately, a compressed file system for Linuthere does not seem to exist yet. However, rsync can use compression for file transfer. Would it be possible to implement an option to store the data on the

Hello, I am working on a backup script using rsync and have a question. Rather than doing a single rsync of /home/ I have set my script up to loop over /etc/passwd and do a seperate rsync of each user home dir (/home/user1, /home/user2) etc. In the end, I should have the exact same backup either way. However I feel safest doing it as multiple rsyncs (one for each user). I am doing this

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

Hi all, Am wanting to backup three servers to a AIT tape device that is connected to a SCO 5.0.5 server. Apart from itself, there is one other SCO 5.0.5 system and a Slackware Linux server. Is it possible to use RSYNC to backup all three servers from the primary SCO server to the tape device ? I wish to append to the tape device also for incremental backups. Any other suggestions appreciated.

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

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