Re: Help creating incremental backups using --backup-dir.
Ok, I figured out the problem. I had to put in the full path for the -- backup-dir option. However, I have ran into another problem that makes doing this just about useless. If I rsync to an HFS+ volume it works correctly. If I rsync to a Samba share it gives me errors and puts files it thinks have been modified at the time of sync into the -- backup-dir directory. It is going through and deleting all the ._ files. The errors I'm seeing are as such. rsync: get_xattr_names: llistxattr(Documents/web server diagram/ web.graffle/._image2.jpg,1024) failed: Operation not permitted (1) deleting Documents/web server diagram/web.graffle/._image2.jpg I have checked the Samba server and the files are being set with the correct owner, group, permissions. Are there any filesystems under linux that allow the proper storage of the Mac metadata? I have tried XFS, ext3 and ext4 with no luck. I even tried creating a sparse disk image and mounting that from a Samba share but it is too unreliable. If there is a connection loss while data is writing to the image it corrupts the image more often than not. David. On Apr 9, 2009, at 11:11 AM, David Miller wrote: Normally I would use the --link-dest option to do this but I can't since I'm rsyncing from a Mac to a Samba share on a Linux box and hard links don't work. What I want to do is create a 10 day rotating incremental backup. I used the first script example on the rsync examples page as a template. The only thing I changed was the destination to be a local directory and paths for the other variables. when I run the script nothing gets copied into the directories named by the day of the week. Each day when the script runs the directory with the name of the current week day is created but everything just goes into current. and stays there. Can someone post an example that does work for what I'm trying to do? Below is the script I'm using. #--- # directory to backup BDIR=$HOME/Documents BACKUPDIR=`date +%A` OPTS= -aX --force --progress --ignore-errors --delete --backup -- backup-dir=/$BACKUPDIR # the following line clears the last weeks incremental directory [ -d $HOME/emptydir ] || mkdir $HOME/emptydir /usr/local/bin/rsync3.0.5 --delete -a $HOME/emptydir/ /Volumes/SAMBA/ $BACKUPDIR/ rmdir $HOME/emptydir # now the actual transfer /usr/local/bin/rsync3.0.5 $OPTS $BDIR /Users/Shared/current #--- Thanks. David. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: Rsync to Mac
It is the same on all *NIX platforms. Create an rsyncd.conf file in / etc and define the settings and modules you want. Here is an example. #rsyncd.conf= secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets read only = no list = yes uid = root gid = wheel timeout = 300 strict modes = false [backup1] auth users = backup path = /Volumes/left/rsync [backup2] auth users = backup path = /Volumes/right/rsync #rsyncd.conf= You can launch the rsync in daemon mode like so /path/to/rsync --daemon Good luck. David. On May 28, 2008, at 2:28 AM, Brad Farrell wrote: Hi All I am trying to setup my Mac to be an Rsync server for my office PCs. I can’t seem to find information on how to setup the Mac as the server part. Any ideas? Brad No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1468 - Release Date: 5/26/2008 3:23 PM -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: Howto: Mac OS X to Windows VM
On Apr 9, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Rama D. Chavali wrote: Hi, I have a mac pro and a windows Vm which I want to keep sync. I tired using other Sync programs but they do not seems to be working. I tend to leave applications running which create their own temp files in its own specific folder, which caused the other sync programs to crash. I tired SyncToy by MS and Unison. I am looking for a bi-directional sync program that runs in the background and syncs any changes caused to the folder. I heard that rsync can slove this problem for me, but I am not sure how. Can any one be of hlep to me? - Rama Why not have a common share point to save your work to? If you are using VMware or Parallels you can share your Macs home folder with windows through the the VM software. We have lots of users who do this. It makes backups easy. I only rsync their Mac home folders and exclude their VMware image. David. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
rsync3 universal binary for Mac OS X?
Did anyone ever get rsync3 to compile as a universal binary and work correctly on both tiger and leopard on ppc and intel? David. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: preserving Mac OS X metadata in rsync backups and restores
On Jan 18, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Moritz Heckscher wrote: Hello all, I'm new to the list, but have done quite a bit of researching before regarding the support of Mac OS X specific features (resource forks, extended attributes, ACLs, file creation modification date). By reading the archives, I get the impression that the current version of rsync 3.0.0pre8 is quite far in this respect. At least it sounds so, and I thank the developers very much for this! I like your approach much more than the (very buggy) one originally pursued by Apple (store metadata in separate ._ file). Be careful and test, test, test. I tried using pre8 to sync two local Xserve RAID's(about 2TB of data) and I'm seeing these errors. rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32) [receiver] internal abbrev error! rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at xattrs.c(565) [receiver=3.0.0pre8] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (175959 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(600) [sender=3.0.0pre8] I have another Xserve RAID(about 1.3TB) and I don't get those errors when syncing with pre8. I'm trying to pin down what files/folders are causing the problem now. I plan to do the following: * Run a Linux server (Ubuntu, I guess, on a ext3 partition) with two separate internal ATA hard disks formatted in XFS and configured in software RAID to store the actual backup data. (As I understand, I should use XFS rather than ext3 because XFS supports extended attributes large enough to hold also larger converted Mac resource forks.) * Back up from different Mac OS X clients (cuurently all on 10.4, but I might upgrade them to 10.5 later) to the server using rsync over ssh. This should hopefully preserve (most of) the Mac-specifif metadata on the server. (Actually I plan to use rsnapshot, but I believe if I have rsync installed in the newest version and possibly tell rsnaphot to use the appropriate rsync options, things will be the same.) Now my question is the following: 1) What would I have to do to ensure the metadata is also restored correctly? I assume I will have to use rsync for restoring also, and if I just copy over data (using, e.g, scp or over an AFP or CIFS or NFS network mount), I will lose this metadata. Is this correct? Why not use rsync3 for both backup and restore. Either use ssh (rsync - azXA --delete /path/to/source server:/path/to/target) or setup an rsync daemon server. This way you let rsync handle the metadata. Another problem I'm thinking about is that rsnapshot should be run on the server to pull the backups over the network. One cannot run it on the clients and push the data to the server over the network -- which is what I'd prefer because I plan to not leave the server on all day but rather have it woken up by the (laptop) clients when needed who'll take care of the scheduling of the backups (using anachron or launchd etc.) One could, however, run rsnapshot on the clients to backup onto a locally attached storage device. You don't need rsnapshot. Use the --link-dist option to create incremental backups. This leads me to the second question: 2) If I mount the server as a network drive on the clients using AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS, ..., and then backup to this 'locally attached' drive with rsync (using rsnapshot), will I lose the metadata because of the transfer via the SMB/... layer? Thanks a lot for a great program! -Moritz -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html David Miller. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
