DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4944] Iconv-patch does not convert command-line args

2007-09-03 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4944 --- Comment #2 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-09-03 02:13 CST --- Your patch appears to only translate the client's charset into UTF-8 before sending the command via the remote shell. This doesn't work for a number of reasons. The biggest

Re: Milestone release for rsync 3.0.0?

2007-09-03 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 02 Sep 2007, Wayne Davison wrote: > > I'm hoping that it won't be all that much longer before the first > pre-release version will be ready. I mainly want to get hard-link > support working in incremental recursion mode (which is getting pretty Hmm, I would have found it acceptable to del

Recommended way for initial backup before rsync calls

2007-09-03 Thread Sven . Hartrumpf
Hi rsync'ers. What can you recommend to create the initial backup of a partition before calling rsync (under Linux, 100 GB, 10M files, only normal files and some soft links)? (Using rsync takes too long for this initial copy.) Here are some candidates: 1. star -copy -no-fsync -p -xdot -C $1 . $

rsync between desktop & external hdd.

2007-09-03 Thread shirish
Hi all, I am a non-technical guy (in some ways) & I did read the man pages but became no wiser. My main aim is to do backups between my hdd & an external 80 GB EIDE hdd. The filesystem is ext3 both on the hdd as well as have made ext3 partitions to the hdd. I have 2 use-cases really :- 1. t

rsync replaces symlinks on destination

2007-09-03 Thread aaa aaa aaa aaa
$ cd /tmp $ echo "123" > aaa $ echo "123" > bbb $ ln -s bbb ccc $ ls -la aaa bbb ccc -> bbb $ rsync aaa ccc $ ls -la aaa bbb ccc This example shows that symlink ccc was replaced with a regular file, which implies that during a remote sync the content of the aaa will be downloaded. However, files

Re: Recommended way for initial backup before rsync calls

2007-09-03 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-09-03 16:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What can you recommend to create the initial backup of a > partition before calling rsync > (under Linux, 100 GB, 10M files, only normal files and > some soft links)? > > (Using rsync takes too long for this initial copy.) > > Here are some c

Re: Recommended way for initial backup before rsync calls

2007-09-03 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 9/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What can you recommend to create the initial backup of a > partition before calling rsync > (under Linux, 100 GB, 10M files, only normal files and > some soft links)? If you're copying an entire partition, another option to consider is copy

Re: rsync replaces symlinks on destination

2007-09-03 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 9/3/07, aaa aaa aaa aaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need > rsync to skip updating the destination file if it is a symlink that > points to a file that is identical to the source file. Rsync doesn't have an option to do that. If the option existed, it would be called --keep-links. Using the

Re: rsync between desktop & external hdd.

2007-09-03 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 9/3/07, shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. take an image of my /home/shirish the first time (without the > .something files) all the remaining files and just do one way > synchronization (whatever is on the hdd gets reflected on the external > storage) If your external drive is mounted at