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I was trying to use rsync to send files to a fileserver using an rssh restricted server. It refuses, saying that trying to override the shell with -e is forbidden. I didn't type "-e". When I look at the source, I see /* Checking the pre-negotiated value allows --protocol=29 override. */ if (protocol_version >= 30) { /* We make use of the -e

Hello, Any help on the following issue will be appreciated. How do I delete files or directories in my first level of directory that is specified as host. Here is an example : rsync -avz --delete ${SOURCE_HOST}:/mlinkfam/extract/sccs/pa/* /mlinkfam/extract/sccs/pa Giving above command I find redundant files or directory not getting deleted from the first level of target directory

HI, I'm trying to have files to be included during rsync. I have the filesystem /stor/circuit_design/, with the following subdirectories as its contents: clock_speed fub_layout test_simulations pattern_flow I would only like to rsync the following 2 subdirectories to the destination machine: clock_speed fub_layout and they're contained in the file called files_included: # cat

HI, I'm trying to exclude some files & directories from a filesystem which I would like to copy to a different site. I did: # rsync -avz --exclude-file=/fs21/tmp/perl_scripts/exclude.txt /fs22/a/circuit_design mickey.willow.com:/cpu/store/design where file /fs21/tmp/perl_scripts/exclude.txt contains the following directories and files to be excluded from /fs22/a/circuit_design :

Hi, This is the first time I have setup rsync.conf like, max connections = 20 syslog facility = local3 read only = true hosts allow = 192.168.10.10 [qmail-control] comment = qmail-control path = /var/qmail/control read only = yes list = yes uid = root gid = root Then from 192.168.10.10, I tried, rsync -avz -e ssh

Hi Friends, Does rsync V3 has the feature for logging the files which have not been transferred? Its already logs the file which have been transfered. Thanks, Jignesh -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

Hi, hardlinking (-H) works perfectly while using a syntax like -avhxSDH <SRC> <DEST> Now I have to mirror multiple SRC directories which contain hardlinks. e. g: src1/a is a hardlink to src2/b -RavhxSDH SRC1 SRC2 DEST does not preserve hardlink a and b in DEST. Is there any chance to do that? Thanks lopiuh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

Hi, I'm trying to use rsync from Windows to Unix. I've followed the directions on : http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/rsync_pc1.html I can see ssh running on the windows machine, because I tested it using telnet localhost 22 and I can see the result "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.4p1". But when I try "$ rsync -avz -e ssh user@windowsserver::/rsync/* ." from the Linux

I just installed rsync on two machines, I think I'm a complete moron, and I need a clue bat. The remote machine's /etc/rsyncd.conf (just for testing): use chroot = no log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock [auth] path = /var/www/auth comment = apache authentication files. read only = yes Then for a test, I fired up

Hi folks We migrated storage from local disk to SAN with: # rsync -avz /mnt/lvol00045/* /lvol00045 Why there is a difference in size? How to explain this? Do we have inconsistency? What we did wrong? [...] /dev/mapper/vg01-lvol00045_old 10321208 3930336 6286016 39% /mnt/lvol00045 [...] /dev/mapper/vg01-lvol00045 10321208 3163852 6633068 33%

Hi, I'm trying to backup from one machine to the other (automatically via cron) using rsync and ssh password-less public key authentication. I having been trying to set this up following an article in a Linux magazine[1] by only allowing the specific rsync command to run on the remote box. I am using the following rsync command: $ rsync -avz -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/backup-key" /backup

Dear friends, a newbie here. we have two webservers, a and b, both of them with rsync installed. We would like to rsync one directory on one server with another directpory on another server. What I do is to go to one of the server (server a) as root using ssh, navigate to the directory, and write rsync -avz username@serverb:directory/ ./ But it does not work. Am I doing something

Hi I do rsync -avz oldUnicelFiles hostB:/home/kaushal --exclude-from=exclude.txt but it rsynced the excluded files too my exclude.txt file contains #################### /home/kaushal/oldUnicelFiles/*.gz /home/kaushal/oldUnicelFiles/*.txt #################### Any ideas as what am i doing wrong Thanks and Regards Kaushal -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and

I have a string, "2012_10_16"; let's call this $YESTERDAY How can I rsync a file tree from a remote machine to the local one, including *only* filenames that contain the matching string? I've read the man page and googled around but can't seem to get the syntax right. I either end up syncing all the files, or none of them. Here's how the code looks now (I will remove

Hi, Basically, I want to preserve some of directories on destination side conditionally and hence, I choose to use --filter option mentioned in rsync man pages. I noticed that --filter option works as expected when I don't have --relative option used but in below case it doesn't work. rsync -avz --relative --delete --filter='H /mydir2' --exclude='- /preserve' mydir1/.

Rsync Ver: 2.5.5 OS: HPUX-11 Hello List, I'm using rsync with ssh with this command line: rsync -avz -e ssh some_file user-b@hostname-b:/home/user-b Which does work, however I get the following error output: rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at main.c(578) Since the file does transfer, is the error output just some sort of bug? I looked in the maillist archives, and I found

I'm running into some errors I can't figure out. Situation: I have a Sparc IPX (2.6 Solaris), a Mac OS X box and an Ultra Sparc 1 running Solaris 9. I am trying to rsync a web site between the IPX and Ultra 1. All boxes are running 2.5.5 rsync built from source. Problem: Can't get a a sync between the IPX -> Ultra. IPX = kashmir Ultra = vortac Mac = archer Assumptions: a).

Has anyone noticed that the --bwlimit doesn't really work? I have MRTG stats happening, and on a 128Kbps circuit, an rsync with the following syntax takes up the whole line. $ rsync -avz -e ssh localfiles.tar.gz user@remote:/path/to/file/arch Any ideas? It's on an OpenBSD box going to a FreeBSD box. Both are 2.4.6. -#0

Hi, I have a rsync server set up. Can i push data from the server to another machine instead of pulling data from that machine. when i try to do that i get this error. mkdir tohost:/tmp ; No such file or directory. But the directory exists. This is the command i executed. rsync -avz --rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync fromhost::test tohost:/tmp This works fine if iam logged onto "tohost"

Hi, I am using rsync for synchronizing two development work areas(geographically seperated). My Task: To copy abc/USER/xyz/123/456/..... to indiavidual developers remote machines atrting from xyz folder. here USER will vary, so for that i have created module till directory structure abc and the command runs like rsync -avz --times vangrish@ruskin::MODULE/%USERNAME%