similar to: about rsyncing of block devices

Hi List, I had a need recently to efficiently synchronise between some large LUNs (boot drive disks) at two different datacentres. Solutions like drbd and $proprietary_array_vendors_software were overkill - we only needed (wanted!) to periodically synchronise these LUNs whenever major changes were generated on the source. On the other hand however, re-sending the entire disk contents each time

Hi, I have awaited the new release inorder to use the -"-partial-dir" option. But after testing it seems that it does not behave like it says on the tin. It will correctly move and rename the interrupted file to the declared directory, but it will not attempt to use it when the client attempts to rsync the file again. I have a Solaris 8 box running as a server (Matthew), and another

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, I'm running rsync-3.0.4 on my UNIX system. I've just updated from rsync-2.6.9. I'm facing a general problem with the execution of files during a transfer process. The situation: 2 Directories (dir1 and dir2) on one machine with a some files in dir1 which shall be translated to dir2. rsync does not correctly recognize dir1 and dir2 as directories. It tries to transfer dir1 as a

Included below is a shar archive containing two patches that together: 1) make backup files get their setuid and setgid bits stripped by default 2) add a "-s" option that allows backup files to continue to have these privileges This means that if you update a collection of binaries with rsync, and one or more of them has a local-root security problem, the backup file(s) created when

I noticed that this topic appeared from time to time on the mailing list and that one patch exists (copy-devices.diff) from a previous thread which allowed rsync to operate with a source device file. The patch below, when combined with the 'copy-devices' patch, allows rsync to be operate between two device files. In our environment this is being used, along with LVM snapshots, to

On 5 Jan 2005, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 18:24 +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: > > hi rusty, > > > > i read on some webpage about rsync and debian that you wrote a patch to > > rsync that let's it uses heuristics when deciding which local file to > > use. could you tell me whether this is planned to be included in

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12036 Bug ID: 12036 Summary: Multiple --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest flags produce incorrect behavior Product: rsync Version: 3.1.2 Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component:

While going through an old todo list I found that these patches had fallen by the way-side. About a year ago I initiated a discussion[1] with the Linux kernel folks regarding the lack of any useable fadvise support on the kernel side. As a result, I was observing extremely poor performance on my server after backup as executable pages were being swapped out in favor of data waiting to be flushed

Hello, about a year ago I ran into situation where there's a "metadirectory" containing directories and symlinks to files. There was a need to mirror the contents of files and directories gathered via symlinks to this metadirectory, regular mirroring of the tree wouldn't do any good. The attached patch gives the user ability to define how many symbolic links rsync should follow

I have attached a patch that supports a new "--direct-write" option. The result of using this option is to write directly to the destination files, instead of a temporary file first. The reason this patch is needed is for rsyncing to a device where the device is full or nearly full. Say that I am writing to a device that has 1 Meg free, and a 2 meg file on that device is out of date.

I am involved with the development of lbackup. This message to the rsync mailing list is related to the following thread on the lbackup-disccussion mailing list : http://tinyurl.com/lbackup-discussion-diskfull Essentially, I am curious to if any one using rsync 3.0.7 on Mac OS (10.6) Server has experienced an out of disk space error and not had a message similar to the following reported : >

Similar to --omit-{dir,link}-times: --omit-device-times omit device files from --times --omit-special-times omit sockets and fifos from --times Also, fix corner case that allows --omit-dir-times to be ignored. See unchanged_attrs() and recv_generator()'s call to try_dests_non(). Marc. diff -aNpRruz -X /etc/diff.excludes rsync-3.2.7/generator.c devel-3.2.7/generator.c ---

I've run into a bug in the IO handling when reading a file. Suppose I have a file that lives on an NFS filesystem. That filesystem is NOT being exported with auth=0 permissions. So, if I try to access a file as root, it successfully opens the file, but subsequent reads fail with EACCES. This produces a destination file full of null bytes. I noticed this with 2.5.7, but checked 2.6.2 as

Thanks Wayne and everybody, This is a huge boost to have a modern rsync for OSX. We're all grateful. Rob D PS I did notice that we lost the bsd flags test in 3.0. It was ok in pre10.... thanks again bbouncer Verifying: basic-permissions ... ok Verifying: timestamps ... Sub-test: modification time ... ok ok Verifying: symlinks ... ok Verifying:

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

Hi, first of all, sorry for taking so long. Unfortunately, some other tasks kept coming up. Anyway, attached is the version of the flags patch, that is based on the one I'm using with 2.6.9. It is against the rsync-3.0.0pre9 release. I've included the option name change from the repository, so the option is now called --fileflags. Improved from the previously distributed version is the

This is a PoC patch for NFSv4/ZFS ACLs. The objective of the patch is that rsync --acls support NFSv4/ZFS ACLs without requiring a new command line option NFSv4 ACLs can't be represented using POSIX draft ACLs, if an NFSv4 ACL is present a separate POSIX draft ACL will not be present and there are new APIs to access NFSv4 ACLs. So we need to distinguish between NFSv4 ACLs and POSIX ACLs in

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

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2758 Summary: "File exists" error using options -b and --backup-dir with device files. Product: rsync Version: 2.6.4 Platform: All OS/Version: AIX Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: