Hi Matt,
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 10:10:49PM -0400, Matt Stevens via rsync wrote:
> I lack development skills. Would there be a way for rsync to be passed an
> option to exclude a specific path during a sync operaton? All of my attempts
> to use exclude have failed, as it does not respect paths,
Hi,
I have a virtual machine with 2G of memory. On this VM there is a
directory tree with 33.3 million files in it. When attempting to
rsync (rsync -PSHav --delete /source /dest) this tree from one
directory to another on the same host, rsync uses all the memory and
is killed by oom-killer.
This
Hi Chris,
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 09:48:37AM +0100, Chris Green via rsync wrote:
> But how do you handle the other end to restore the root ownership etc.?
> The script has to do something like:-
>
> rsync -a /etc/ chris@remote:backups/etc/
>
> So at the remote end it only has chris'
Hi Chris,
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 11:48:31AM +0100, Chris Green via rsync wrote:
> If I used the --super option (in a command like the one above) and
> chris can run rsync as root on the remote end (via options in the
> sudoers file) will this do what I want? I guess I can go away and try
> it!
Hello,
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 03:05:27PM +0100, Chris Green via rsync wrote:
> Remember, as I said, this is all Debianland with no real root login,
> while I could add one I'd prefer not to.
Your system already has a root user and if you added an SSH public
key to its authorized_keys file
Hi Kevin,
On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 05:38:41PM -0500, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote:
> Are you using the same source and target each time?
Yes.
> I ask because the only discrepancy I see is the link count which
> shows that there are 11 more instances of that inode on the source
> than the target.
Hi,
I am at the moment using rsync to move quite a big set of backups
from one machine to another. The source filesystem is xfs; the
target filesystem is btrfs.
For various reasons I have been stopping the rsync part way through
and re-starting. I have noticed that a large number of files are
