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Is it possible to tell rsync *not* to use file names, date stamps, etc and only use the checksum for deciding if a file is the same? the remote machine "normalizes" a set of file names to remove all punctuation marks and forces all file names to lower case. The files themselves are unchanged. --checksum looks promising but it does not say anything about file names: -c, --checksum

We are using rsync to pull backups created on our server. The command below is run as a cronjob and it works great. rsync -avu --rsh "ssh -l root" root@servername:/var/lib/mysql/backups/ /backups/mysql/ We have a new server that will replace the old server that rsync pulls backups from. On the system that is running rsync, I switched the servername in the command above to the new

Hi all. I currently have a problem. I try to make a backup of a running / filesystem to a second disc. I've read tha some people use rsync for it. I mount the second harddisc at /mnt/hdb1 and issue a command: rsync -vaHx --progress --numeric-ids --delete \ --exclude-from=asylum_backup.excludes --delete-excluded \ / /mnt/hdb1 Then I shutdown the system, remove the first disc and try

Hey everyone, I am a final semester MCA student. I've chosen rsync as the subject of my project for my graduation. Hence I would appreciate it if someone could guide me with some ideas on how I can contribute to rsync. I will work hard to implement whatever suggestions that you can all give me. I would definitely like to know what are some of the issues concerning rsync. May be I can then

Hi all, I need my rsync to listen on port 8090 as well as on the standard rsync port. Is this possible, and if so, how does one do this? Thanks! Robert -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

Hi All We want to use rsync to backup a live Berkley db to a remote site. BDB has a requirement that read has to be in the unit of db page size. So wonder how could we make sure that rsync can follow that? If we need to change the code, where we should begin to look at? Thanks! Ming

The below command works perfectly and it creates "test file" on destination host. rsync -avz /tmp/test\ file destination:/tmp/ sending incremental file list test file sent 91 bytes received 31 bytes 27.11 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 The below two command doesn't work. The rsync creates "test" file on destination host in both of below cases. 1. I want to

Hi, I don't know how to exactly describe the bug, but the following test-case reproduces the bug in 3.0.6 mkdir rsync-test cd rsync-test mkdir -p "src/directory (name)" touch "src/directory (name)/somefile" mkdir dest rsync --archive --dry-run --verbose "src/directory (name)/" "$USER at 127.0.0.1:$PWD/dest/directory (name)" The error is: bash: -c:

How do I make rsync ignore and not report or update certain parts of the [l]stat(2) struct or checksum when selecting which items to report or update in a hierarchy? For example, I want to run: rsync -Haxi --delete /hier1/ /hier2/ and have it NOT do anything if say ONLY the modtime differs. Leaving out or in the --times [-t] option from the expansion of -a to -rlptgoD obviously does not do this.

Hello, many linux SW is starting to implement new lzma compresson instrad of old zlib (gzip) od bzip2. lzma is default comrpession in very good compression SW 7-zip, which is faster and have higher compression ratio then bzip2 or rar. Currently its probalby the best compressor in therms of compression and decompression speed / compression ratio. In linux there is GNU lzma SW which implements

Hello, I have a question regarding using the --recursive option when preserving hard link with -H. How is it, that these two options are compatible when used together? I would think that RSYNC would need to see all files/inodes before transferring, to preserve hard links. But yet it still starts transferring before reading the entire file list. Don't get me wrong, this is excellent as

Hi, I read many posts about this, faq, googled, and finally got to write here. The scenario/question is this: I want to transfer files from Server B -> Server C the problem is that, files that are to be transfered may be open/busy, meaing they are "not still complete, " or they are open while rsync is run. Is there a way to automatically handle these open files using rsync , rsync

We are using the standard -av switch. And both filesystems are the same - UFS. /opt/rsync/bin/rsync -av -e "ssh -l root" --delete --exclude-from=/var/scripts/exclude --password-file=/var/scripts/transfer.passwd <username>@<source host>::<source dir>/ /<destination dir> Source system <source host>:<source dir># du -sh * 1K nohup.out 20G

Hello, people. Sorry but I found that when you do rsync to a not created destination it makes a mkdir in order to accomplish the work. The problem comes when there are some uncreated parents in the destination directories. That's just because in the builtin mkdir isn't specified the -p option. Thus, the problem is solved just adding the -p option to the built in mkdir in the code you

Hi, I made the mistake of doing an rsync of a directory into the wrong destination, so that the destination became a mix of two directories of unrelated files. Top unravel the mess, I could need something like a --delete-existing option. The semantics would be to delete at the destination ONLY those files that exists at the source. I tried to concoct a combination of options that would do

Hi, I have the following script that I'm writing to backup my gentoo linux system. ----- start of script ----- #!/bin/sh # # RSYNC_OPTS="--archive --one-file-system --perms --executability --progress --stats --delete-after --hard-links --keep-dirlinks --verbose --inplace" RSYNC_USER="bs" RSYNC_SERVER="192.168.6.6" RSYNC_MODULE="ben-desktop"

Hi All, I came into a strange issue running rsync on directory with ~500,000 files. Some of the file, although with same time stamps and size on source and destination, were different on the destination. The destination is just a mirrored area, and the data written to it, is just the one that comes through rsync. Needless to mentioned, that when I remove files and synced them again it works, or

I have 5 or 6 :-( different copies of a filesystem on various Linux boxen, all backups taken at different times, with different exclusions, and squirreled away. Now's the time to clean up my attic. I'd like to merge them all into one big filesystem. When there are different copies of the same files, I'd like to keep the newest; I don't know what else to do. My plan (assuming

This is just an inquiry about how rsync calculates its transfer speeds. I'm using rsync over ssh to pull data from our central office to another office. Our central office is connected to the internet via T1 and the other office is connected to the internet via DSL. rsync is being run at the remote office to pull data down from the central office so I expect to see transfer speeds at a

Is it possible to call rsync and tell it to use a filter file if it exists, but otherwise continue without errors? If I pass "--filter=. .rsync-filter", it will fail if .rsync-filter doesn't exist. I know you can pass "--filter=: /.rsync-filter" to search for filter files in each directory. That won't fail if there aren't any such files. But I'm only