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This is just a trivial documentation change. The word "link" is overloaded. It refers to symlinks, hardlinks and network links. When looking for references to file links in the manpages the network references get in the way. This patch changes when reasonable to do so the word "link" to "connection" when referring to the network. This is just a suggested

Hi. My goal is to use rsync to syncronize box1 and box2. On box2, I have a tapedrive which I write the data I syncronize from box1 every night. On box1, my /etc/rsyncd.conf looks like this: root@box1# cat /etc/rsyncd.conf max connections = 1 syslog facility = local6 [tmp] path = /tmp read only = yes comment = export of /tmp hosts allow = box2 auth users

I was startled to find that the --csum-length option is not implemented even though it is documented in the manpage. Not a good thing. Here's a patch that removes the manpage entry. I'd much rather not see this option and actually have the csum_length be per-file dynamic. Either way this patch should be applied at least until the code changes. The patch also brings rsync.1 and

hello, It's the first time I post some thing in this forum. I am using rsync over Netware 6.5 to syncing 20 Novell servers. My wan conection is 2 Mb and I run rsync at night when traffic is very low. I use the following parameters: rsincstp.ncf sys:rsync/rsyncdn Rsync172.17.X.Y:873 rsyncstr.ncf sys:rsync/rsyncst sys:rsync/rsync --progress --address=172.17.X.Y

I got rsyncd v2.6.6 protocol version 29 running on Suse Enterprise Server 10. Here's what my /etc/rsyncd.conf looks like - max connections = 0 log format = %a %h %o %f %l %b log file = /var/log/rsync/rsync.log [nibbler] path = /backup/nibbler comment = nibbler read only = no use chroot = no timeout = 3600 transfer logging = yes [remote] path = /backup/remote/ comment = remote read only = no

Hi list, I am still having troubles with rsync, as on large areas in our setup, it keeps dying unexpectedly. See my previous post two days ago for the initial tries. I realize it is a somewhat broad question, but how do I troubleshoot these disconnects? Im no great programmer, although we have a few good c programmers around, and if needed I can ask for their help. But for now, my thinking is,

Hi, My nightly rsync jobs recently began to fail. I don't recall making any modifications to the rsync config files or upgrading rsync. Below is the error I receive when I try to rsync the home directory of serverA to serverB. Is there anything obviously wrong? Thanks. serverA rsync # rsync -arczv --delete --password-file=/etc/rsync/rsync.password /home 192.168.1.4::home @ERROR: auth failed

Hi, I've been trying to use rsync to backup the content of a large web application on our Digital unix servers. I'm having some success but the main problem is the sheer number of files and subdirectories which must be copied/maintained between the two servers (one is our standby system). Believe it or not there are in excess of 7.5 million files/directories which must be synced between

I haven't gotten it to work successfully, I'm still struggling with the same setgroups error that you are. However, I can tell you what I have tried. So far I have rsync configured to run in --daemon mode using the command: sudo rsync --daemon I can prompt it for a list of modules, but when I go to copy a module, I get the error @ERROR: setgroups failed. I can copy locally, from one HD to

I am moving from an anonymous rsync setup to a password protected rsync setup. I have my module involved in the test configured to auth only for one user. The secrets file is working just fine for I have tested it. Before I decided to go with a password protected setup, I had a script that cron ran every night at 2 am. worked like a charm. I added the --password-file=/etc/rsyncd.secrets argument

Greetings, Has anyone successfully compiled rsync 2.5.5 under Mac OS X (not Server), and actually have it work fully? I'm in a position where I'm trying to setup an automated nightly remote backup between and Cobalt Raq4 (running a variant of Redhat Linux) and a Mac running OS X 10.1.5 with the latest development tools installed. As has been pointed out previously on the list, one has

Hi all. I need to backup a server (actually web, dns and mail) placed on Internet, and write data on a computer inside the intranet of our company. I have read good things about rsync from the mailing list and the man pages, and I know that it can represent the solution for what I'm looking for. However, since I'm new to rsync, if you can give me your opinion about my configuration I

I am not currently subscribed so please email me below. First, my only experience with rsync has been older versions (e.g. 1.7.x) which did not allow daemon mode, so please bear with me. My problem is that I would like to mirror large quantities of data on a remote machine to a local one, but I don't care about encrypting the data itself. I only care about securing the connection from the

There are two security advisories for people who run a writable rsync daemon. One affects only those with "use chroot = no" (which is not a very safe combination in general), and one affects a daemon that has daemon-excluded files that are being hidden in a module's hierarchy. Included are simple config-change suggestions that should help you to avoid the security issues. These

There are two security advisories for people who run a writable rsync daemon. One affects only those with "use chroot = no" (which is not a very safe combination in general), and one affects a daemon that has daemon-excluded files that are being hidden in a module's hierarchy. Included are simple config-change suggestions that should help you to avoid the security issues. These

Hi Folks -- I've recently had the need to add a piece of functionality to rsync that allows one to run 'rsync --daemon' (rsync in "rsync server" mode) over SSH. My main goal was to be able to use some of the features from rsyncd.conf(5) (notably modules) while still using SSH for authentication and network transport. Background: I wanted to have the capability of setting

Hi everyone, I'd like to propose a patch for review. It enhances rsync when patched and compiled with slp support. It adds a new global boolean option, 'disable slp', which can be used to disable SLP advertisements at runtime. The idea behind this patch is to allow distributors to build rsync with SLP support compiled in, but to allow the users to turn it off without recompiling

After making quite a few circles around one particular issue (and eventually resolving it) I have a suggestion to make: Append the following to http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#2.7 "NOTE: In order to agent forwarding to work you need to have xauth installed in the remote host. In Debian xauth is in 'xbase-clients' package." And about that "F" in

Hello. I suspect that what I want to do is not possible with rsync, but this is the best place to double-check. We are pushing files to a remote target that stores them on a very slow network file system. There are also over a million files on the target. Consequently, running rsync to push an update takes hours while the remote side enumerates and stats all those files. I thought, that

I have Ssh setup for passwordless execution of the rsync command via sudo. (command="sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync...") which for the most part works fine. However, somewhere along the line things aren't running as the right uid/gid. I get Oct 11 13:15:40 node15 sudo: back-op : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/usr/home/back-op ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/local/bin/rsync --server --daemon . Oct 11