Re: Target: following file symlinks?

2012-07-20 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Yuriy Davygora wrote:

 So, my question remains: can rsync somehow handle symlinks at the target
 machine, or should I use some other tools?

A little Googling and/or RTFM would be appropriate, would it not?


Check the man page on:

--copy-dirlinks

Or Google for an example:

http://justaddwater.dk/2009/10/15/resolve-symlinks-when-copying-files-with-rsync/

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Re: Rsync to a Remote NAS

2012-04-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Kevin Korb wrote:

 Using either rsync over ssh or rsyncd which is what I said in my
 original reply.  But unfortunately few NAS appliances support those.

Check for a custom kerhel for your NAS box - most have a ssh daemon and
rsync. We did that a lot a few years ago, but have not done any recently.

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Re: Run rsync even not connected

2012-04-11 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Chris Arnold wrote:

 I hopethis hope this makes sense. How do you make rsync run even when
 not physically connected to the server? In other words, I run rsync from
 the terminal via vnc and when I log out of the connection, rsync stops
 running. Is there a script or something I can use?

man screen (manually as a user) or
use a cron job

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Re: Data Pull Vs Push

2012-01-16 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Satish Shukla wrote:

 b)  pulling  the data from source to destination   ( i.e. running
 rsync from destination machine)

The main reason to pull is with hard linking of the saved files, e.g.
rsnapshot - only possible with a pull operation. Security is also a little
better, as you have a single authorized command key on the remote machine
so the backup machine can be secured better (behind a firewall).

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Re: securing rsync backup solutions?

2011-12-27 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Daniel Pocock wrote:

 For full system backup, rsync obviously needs to run as root on the
 machine being backed up

Not exactly, .. it is trivial to setup a root key on the 'to be backed up'
machine that only authorizes the rsync command.

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Re: Not all files copied

2011-11-14 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Mike Brown wrote:

 I can't run it as root, as root login via ssh is not allowed for security
 reasons.

PMFJI, but there *are* secure ways to allow root login - check out forced
command only.

We run a number of rsnapshot/rsync jobs as root, but the only command
allowed is rsync.

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Re: Permission denied (13)

2011-04-15 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Juan Pablo Segundo wrote:

 Hello!

 I've been trying to do backups with rsync. I want to do the backup into a
 NAS (LG Network Storage N2B1/N2R1). I start mounting the NAS in my Ubuntu
 Server 10.04 via cifs, and the /home from my Ubuntu's machines via nfs. This
 script executes in the server's crontab, with root permissions.

You would be a lot better off installing an unlocked kernel and running
nfs, and you also get ssh access to see what's going on in the box.

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Re: Rsync on shares issue

2011-03-09 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 chad.fra...@crowley.com wrote:

 rsync  -auvrlt --progress --stats --delete /cygdrive/v/SHARE/
jaxback02::u/%computername%/SHARE/

 The issue is there is a another share on this server  called shared,
 this points to the same /SHARE/ folder.  Rsync is creating two different
 folders on the destination server one called SHARE and on called SHARED,
 and then its duplicating the data to both folders  Is shared is not
 a physical folder why is rsync see it as such?

Why do you have SHARED under SHARE? Move it out from under SHARE or
exclude it (--exclude). AFAIK, there is no reliable way to distinguish
links from physical files on NTFS.

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Re: can't create a local mirror

2010-09-25 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Tim Hanson wrote:

 rsync: readlink_stat(/home/timh/.gvfs) failed: Permission denied (13)

IME, you can't rsync .gvfs, .. you need to exclude that directory. GVFS is
a virtual file system and does not work with rsync.

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Re: can't create a local mirror

2010-09-25 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Tim Hanson wrote:

 Also, I tried to --exclude it, but got the same error.

If you still get the error, you aren't excluding it - your exclusion
pattern is not matching.

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Re: --compare-dest weirdness

2010-07-21 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:

 rsync with --link-dest so that all files that aren't changed are
 hardlinked.

 Then to 'tar' all changed or new files you want a list of files without
 hardlinks as those are the files that where changed or new(*):
 find dir -type f -links 1  files.lst
 tar options --files-from=files.lst

Easier yet:

rsnapshot  -z  (use compression)

Simple way to get versions - hoursly/daily/weekly/monthly.

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rsync 3.0.6 job 'stalls'

2010-07-02 Thread L. V. Lammert
Been trying to setup a backup between a Debian machine  CentOS; both are
3.0.6, but observing the log shows:

1) Connection is established (via ssh)
2) A file list is transferred [seems to be all files, including the
pattern for what is selected?]
3) After the file list, the initiator (running 'pull') shows Done
4) No files get transferred

Using bare rsync, with -av, ..

One possible clue - when launching the job as a push, there seeems to be
a memory problem, but running with a single directory (say, 50MB), it
still fails the same way.

Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot would be appreciated.

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