RE: permissions bug w/ --backup-dir or --backup option?

2001-09-19 Thread James Delahanty
Carey, Well, I'm not sure what platform/filesystem you're running on, but we use rsync on linux (ext2fs) with the --backup-dir and -a options, backing files up to a different volume on the same machine, and don't have the problem you describe. The backup partition is natively mounted (not NFS, o

RE: permissions bug w/ --backup-dir or --backup option?

2001-09-19 Thread Carey Jung
> > And we've done 19,658 runs so far (8/server/day), over 380 Gigs sync'd > with an average of 44Meg(11Meg compressed) of data per run, and all of > our backup files come across with correct owners and permissions. Whew! > > I'd look to your filesystem first. Do the rsync'd files (not backup-di

Re: Does the same version of rsync need to be on each server ?

2001-09-19 Thread Martin Pool
On 16 Sep 2001, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have serveral servers with different versions of Redhat, does the same > version of rsync need to be on each server ? No, it just has to not be ridiculously old. Anything from the last three years or so will interoperate. > If so what it the

Re: rsync and SSL

2001-09-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:10:45PM -0500, Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:29:37PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote: | > My concern with SSH is making it function with an authentication space | > different than the /etc/passwd space, and absolutely ensuring that there |

Re: rsync and SSL

2001-09-19 Thread M. Drew Streib
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:47:15AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > That way we could do SMTP over SSL etc etc transparently: clients connect, > say "SSL", if rejected either fall back or fall out, and if accepted > then away we all go. > > Is there some technical reason for not doing things this

Re: rsync and SSL

2001-09-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:00:46AM +, M. Drew Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:47:15AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > That way we could do SMTP over SSL etc etc transparently: clients connect, | > say "SSL", if rejected either fall back or fall out, and if acce

rsync via ssh

2001-09-19 Thread IVANYI Ivan
Hi, We have 2 problems with rsync over ssh that we haven't been able to replicate all the time. Basically, we have a developement server running Solaris 2.5.1 and another running Solaris 2.6, the development tree is shared via nfs. When minor changes are made they are distibuted to various mirr

using rsync from a windows machine to linux?

2001-09-19 Thread Stephen Jowitt
Hi, I have a need to develop a system for our coders to be able to compile code on a windows machine, then quickly and easily test that the same code compiles on linux. Is rsysnc a tool that could be considered for this job? i.e. is it possible to set up a DOS script that could be run after some