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There's a rather old bug report in Debian's bug tracking system (see http://bugs.debian.org/27126) about wanting to be able to specify the maximum file size, as well as the minimum file size. Here's the text: Sometimes, it's useful to specify a file size range one is interested in. For example, I'd like to keep an up-to-date mirror of Debian, but I currently

'rsync -a' updates the ctime on a directory even if no file in that directory has changed. A kind of workaround is to use '-O', but then the mtimes of directories are not preserved. (Usage example where this is important: maintain a copy of filesystem A in filesystem B, and use filesystem B as the source for incremental backups (e.g., with star). rsync is run before an

All, Could someone explain the purpose of the uidswap functions with respect to ssh ( the client ). From what I gathered , ssh installs as setuid root and swaps ids when reading potential key files that may be read only by root. Also , I think when binding to a privileged port ssh swaps id. Is that so? What are the consequnences if you do not install ssh setuid root? ( As far I as know no uid

Hello, Why does the configure scipt include -I/usr/local/include for CPPFLAGS and -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib for LDFLAGS in the Makefile? Is this nesscesary? I take them out for security concerns Thanks Doug

I'm in the midst of coding a patch set for consideration that will bump the protocol version and have a couple of observations. The current minimum backwards-compatible protocol is 15 but we have code that checks for protocol versions as old as 12. If someone else doesn't beat me to it i'm considering cleaning out the pre-15 compatibility code. A backwards compatibility patch could

Hi, I'm having a problem rsyncing one file (since I signed it). It seems that the content of a file is able to cause problems in the protocol. building file list ... 28820 files to consider apt/packages/avifile/ apt/packages/avifile/avifile-0.7.34-1.dag.rh90.i386.rpm rsync: error writing 4 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code

I'm not sure keepalive is working the way I think it's supposed to. Here's my test. I've got a large file (approx 1 gig) on the rsync server, and I append a character on the end to make it slightly different. I fire up rsync on the client side and everything works fine until I hit the timeout value. I have this problems when I have a timeout of below 90 seconds. I've tried

The generator can skip a directory's contents altogether due to --ignore-non-existing, a daemon exclude, or a mkdir failure. On a --dry-run, the generator can also note the missingness of a directory while still scanning its contents. These two scenarios were conflated using a single set of missing_below/missing_dir variables in combination with transient increments in dry_run; this caused

The attached patch adds some whitespace to the recv_files() function declaration, and renames variable 'f' to 'f_out' in generate_files(). -------------- next part -------------- Index: generator.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/rsync/generator.c,v retrieving revision 1.93 diff -b -c -r1.93 generator.c *** generator.c 30 Jun

Please CC me directly as i'm not on the list. I have attached a patch against latest CVS (cvs diff -u) that adds the following functionality. I can break it up if you would prefer it in pieces. Comments welcome. o add compare-perms option This creates a new inode for a file even if only the perms have changed. This way if a file outside of destdir is hardlinked to a dentry inside

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582 ------- Additional Comments From wayned@samba.org 2004-08-05 11:21 ------- Created an attachment (id=594) --> (https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=594&action=view) Fix problem with --dry-run (-n) This patch avoids a fatal error when using --dry-run and the destination directory does not exist on the receiver. -- Configure

In an effort to get my long-desired move-files functionality into rsync, I have created a version of my patch that runs as an extra pass at the end of the processing. This results in a simpler set of changes to rsync. I still think it would be nice to have incremental deletions during large transfers (as my first patch provides), but acceptance of this patch would relegate such quibbling to a

Greetings, I'd like to propose a new option to rsync, which causes it to read device files as if they were regular files. This includes pipes, character devices and block devices (I'm not sure about sockets). The main motivation is cases where you need to synchronize a large amount of data that is not available as regular files, as in the following scenarios: * Keep a copy of a block

Hi All, Here's an rsync patch which adds an --offline flag, letting you transfer changed blocks via removable media, while still comparing checksums via the net. I expect this could be very popular for the growing number of people who want to do disk-based offsite backups, which is what I needed it for. It took me longer than I hoped, but still only several hours to work this out -- it

Hello I'm having a heck of a time rsync'ing (is that the proper conjugation? :)) between two Cygwin machines. I have three directory trees that are "exposed" via rsynch. Two of the three have a very shallow structure, and they work fine. The third, however, has a fairly deep structure and many more files than the other two, and rsync'ing this directory causes a hang on

I've added the options --min-age=SECONDS and --max-age=SECONDS to allow rsync to skip files based on how recently they were modified. Setting --min-age=30 (for example) would cause rsync to skip files that had been modified within the last 30 seconds. Setting --max-age=7776000 would cause rsync to skip files that had been modified more than 90 days ago (7776000 == 60*60*24*90). I realize

Dear List, the attached patch makes rsync of local folders almost as fast as cp. when rsync client and server has detected that they are working in local_server mode, they use local_socket, a unix domain socket pair, to pass the file descriptors of the synced files. the server uses the file descriptor it receives from the client to fast copy from src to dst file. on completion of every file fast

As I reported a while back rsync doesn't handle metadata (permissions and ownership) in dryrun mode. I offered to make a patch and that offer still stands. I didn't have the time for it until now and want to pick it up again. I had some ugly hack back then but I want to redo it in a clean way. I would like some input on my thoughts. IMHO, it would be ideally if the check for dry_run

Mark II of the patch set. The first patch (dynsumlen2.patch) increments the protocol version to support per-file dynamic block checksum sizes. It is a prerequisite for varsumlen2.patch. varsumlen2.patch implements per-file dynamic block and checksum sizes. The current block size calculation only applies to files between 7MB and 160MB setting the block size to 1/10,0000 of the file length for a

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5478 Summary: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32) Product: rsync Version: 3.0.3 Platform: Other URL: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1959 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal