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Hi I have a file system that contains millions of small files. Since I backup it everyday with rsync using slow WAN link, I think it will be nice that if rsync can do this: An option that let rsync only check with remote rsync daemon about local files that has last modification time newer than one day ago (so is modified since yesterday backup). This can greatly reduce the WAN traffic. Is this

Hi All I run rsync in an automated environment and it sometime will crash and leave a core dump file. from core dump, gdb shows that gdb) bt #0 add_dirs_to_tree (parent_ndx=-1, from_flist=0x56c590, dir_cnt=1) at flist.c:1422 #1 0x0000000000409eab in send_file_list (f=16, argc=-1, argv=0x56c238) at flist.c:2068 #2 0x0000000000419052 in client_run (f_in=16, f_out=16, pid=-1, argc=1,

Hi What should be the right exit code for vanished file in this scenario. (1) Use inotify or other mechanism to check changed files and then generate a file list. (2) < file get deleted> (3) run rsync with --files-from with the old list. then send_file_list()->link_stat() will return errno 2 on some files and then set exit code to 23. but shall rsync return 24? -- Ming Zhang

Hi, It seems that rsync transfers files whose names was changed or which were moved to another directory since the previous synchronization. I think that ability not to transfer (large) files which are present on another computer would be very helpful. Right before rsync is going to transfer some large file it could check if there some other files with the same size ( and maybe the same mtime

Hi All Some time rsync just return error code 23 that some files are not transferred. Is there a way to get a list of these files so we can retry it later time? For example, we scan the whole file system and N files are not transferred. Instead of scan the whole file system later again, we can use files-from which is much faster. Thanks. -- Ming Zhang @#$%^ purging memory... (*!%

I have great luck running rsync from one linux system to another, or from a windows system (with cwRsync) to a linux system. But when I try to do an rsync backup from one directory on a Windows system to another, it fails. The cwRsync says its version is 2.6.9. Here's my Rsync command, boiled down to its simplest: rsync -rlptgD -vvv --delete --delete-excluded --modify-window=2

Hi All If rsync gets files from standard input, when it starts to process that file, immediately or read until EOF, or somewhere in between? For example, if a list is generated slowly but continuously and keep feeding to rsync, will rsync wait a very long time before ever handling the first file? Is this behavior controllable? Thanks! Ming -- never so busy...

Hi All I would like to use rsync to synchronize two file system tree over WAN periodically. The file system trees contain millions of small image files. Base on our understanding, rsync try to generate file name list before doing any operation, we easily run short of memory and have impact on our normal file system activities. I wonder if rsync can have an option that when it scan the file

Hi All. On Mac OS10.4, using rsync 3.0, it stops during a transfer. I mount an SMB share, and then use the line: sudo rsync -avhi --delete --stats --timeout=360 --progress --log-file=/Volumes/backup/20080429/rsynclog.txt --exclude="*:*" /Volumes/RAID_One /Volumes/backup/20080429 There's a few terabytes of data, and it never finishes a complete run. It can stop at anywhere during

Hi all! I'd like to use rsync to keep aligned physical volumes between linux servers. I know that there are other tools but I really need to use rsync. I would like to do something as rsync /dev/VG/SourceLogicalVolume root@dest_server:/dev/VG/DestinationLogicalVolume Do you think could it be possible? Thanks Marco

Hello guys! I'm doing a middle scale backup job using ccollect [0], which uses rsyn, with about 50 servers, each about 1-10 GiB changes per day and have some problems, that servers do not finish their backup completly: [host1.backup] Read from remote host host1.backup: Connection reset by peer [host1.backup] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (41306592 bytes received so far) [receiver]

I noticed that rsync is happy to hard-link a device node from a --link-dest dir even if its mtime differs from that of the source device node and --times is given. Is this behavior expected? It seems to break the rule that a difference in preserved attributes disqualifies a hard link. To see the behavior, run the following as root: mkdir src dest basis mknod src/null c 1 3 sleep 1 mknod

On 6/30/07, Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> committed: > Added Files: > checksum-xattr.diff > Log Message: > A simple patch that lets rsync use cached checksum values stored in > each file's extended attributes. A perl script is provided to create > and update the values. Wayne, You should be aware of two drawbacks of caching checksums in xattrs: First,

Hi, I'm running the following command as a local copy command. faheem at bulldog:/mnt/data$ sudo rsync -abvz --super /data/ . Origin directory faheem at bulldog:/data$ ls -la total 28 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 26 08:34 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Apr 13 17:09 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 owzar001 root 4096 Nov 6 2010 CTS drwxr-xr-x 2 owzar001 owzar001 4096 Aug 27 2010

hi! i want to use rsync for backup to central storage. from emc networker i know some nice feature - it`s telling about "changed files during save" - i.e. i know which files have changed their contents while being backed up. for example you can see if shutdown of some oracle database was forgotten and that database was backed up online accidentally. what`s the rsync equivalent to

I've just released rsync 3.0.0pre7, the latest pre-release version of the upcoming 3.0.0 release. This release contains fixed exclude checks for a "use chroot = no" daemon that has excludes listed in the config file. This is a partial fix for the 2nd advisory that was released recently. See the rsync security web page for the updated details and a patch for 2.6.9:

I've just released rsync 3.0.0pre7, the latest pre-release version of the upcoming 3.0.0 release. This release contains fixed exclude checks for a "use chroot = no" daemon that has excludes listed in the config file. This is a partial fix for the 2nd advisory that was released recently. See the rsync security web page for the updated details and a patch for 2.6.9:

Hi All I tried to find out in the man page about what is the valid character we can use in module name in rsyncd.conf but failed. Anyone knows? Anyway, here is a bug. I defines a module with abc/def as name. $ rsync lab11-101:: abc/def this one show the module name, but when i try to use it. $ rsync vpn lab11-101::abc/def @ERROR: Unknown module 'abc' rsync error: error

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6701 Summary: permission of attributes are not preserved Product: rsync Version: 3.1.0 Platform: Other OS/Version: Solaris Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: cavalli at cilea.it

Hello List, How would i rsync all files which are older than X-Days? I am missing some kind of -mtime option. Since this is quite common for backups i am wondering how you are doing this kind of stuff. Thanks, Mario