rsync between mac and network drive

2007-01-17 Thread Bob Lisbonne
I would like to use rsync to backup my Mac to a network drive, and am hoping someone on the list can help straighten me out. Since the network drive can't run any programs, I am first mounting the drive onto the Mac via SMB as /Volumes/backup. When I run: rsync -av --delete --no-whole-file

socket option

2007-01-17 Thread LS
Hi All, This is my first mail on this list. I have to use rsync on windows system and want to know if the socket option can be used as on Linux system. Otherwise, is there someone who has tried to use rsync daemon with more than 200 concurrent connexion. Is there any tweaking I can do to help rs

rsnapshot

2007-01-17 Thread tony . chamberlain
Hi I got rsnapshot working, but I am still unclear about a few things. Say I have intervals daily 7 weekly 4 monthly 12 so running "rsnapshot daily" for seven days will create files daily.0, daily.1, daily.2, daily3, daily.4, daily.5, daily.6 If at the end of the week I do "rsnapshot weekly

memory problem

2007-01-17 Thread Preeti Joshi
Hi, I am using rsync-2.5.5 on power pc system. It is an embedded system with very low memory few MBs. Most of the time only 4-5 MB memory is free (as shown using free command). I have an application that periodically (every 20 sec) fires rsync command from system command i.e. system ("rsync..") t