3.0.0pre2 error on module, fine on subdir

Just tripped over this one today. $ rsync --no-motd rsync://alphageek.dyndns.org/slackware rsync: link_stat "." (in slackware) failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1498) [receiver=3.0.1pre2] $ rsync --no-motd rsync://alphageek

Re: bwlimit on rsync locally

Is there anyway to make rsync use direct I/O bypassing FS buffer? On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:57 PM, John Van Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Reeve Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does "bwlimit" option really work on rsync locally? > > Yes, it does. > > > > rsync with

Hard Links on Windows?

Anyone ever heard of or used something called DataSafe Backup? http://sofgem.selfip.com/ Claims to take advantage of 'hard links' on windows to windows backups... Interesting... I'll be giving it a try on one of my clients networks just for fun... -- Best regards, Charles -- To unsubscribe

Windows backup API in rsync port?

Windows systems have a great "feature" - even administrators can't access files for which they don't have permissions (I'm not talking about files exclusively opened, which is something else). To read files which are normally inaccessible because of insufficient permissions, Windows administra

Re: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:41:26PM +0100, Sebastian Kösters wrote: > 2008/03/28 16:35:46 [5573] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes > [sender]: Broken pipe (32) This tells you that the connection unexpectedly closed, so you should look to see why BackupPC went away. ..wayne.. -- T

rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe

Hi, i installed rsync 3.0 on a Sun Solaris 10 Sparc Server and tried to Backup the Server via BackupPC the complete rsync command from the backup server is this: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root IP /usr/bin/rsync --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=20

Re: Major rsync issue - overwriting files!!!

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 00:36 -0700, Nathan Griffiths wrote: > I'm having a MAJOR issue with an rsync backup script that is actually > OVERWRITING the files that it should be backing up! > BAK_PATH="/Volumes/REM Backup/RsyncBackups/REM" > LINK_DEST="/Volumes/REM Backup/RsyncBackups/REM/Daily/Previo

Re: rsync errors

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 19:56 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > I am still getting the below error > rsync: failed to set permissions on "/var/lib/mysql": Operation not > permitted (1) > [...] User "sms" can't set the permissions of files owned by "mysql"; there's no way to change this policy using

Re: Major rsync issue - overwriting files!!!

Nathan Griffiths wrote: > The thing is, the same script (with different source/destination > variables) runs FLAWLESSLY on another file server! I'm thinking the spaces in some of your paths are quite significant. The shell script does not quote spaces properly in $LINK_DEST, when that's saved in

Re: Major rsync issue - overwriting files!!!

On 28 Mar, 2008, at 08:36 , Nathan Griffiths wrote: on the intel server, rsync constantly attempts to overwrite the source files (& has succeeded!), with empty directories. it simpply deleted the source directory. once it overwrote it with old files from a previous backup. 2 things i c

Major rsync issue - overwriting files!!!

Hi, I'm having a MAJOR issue with an rsync backup script that is actually OVERWRITING the files that it should be backing up! The thing is, the same script (with different source/destination variables) runs FLAWLESSLY on another file server! Background: 2 OS X client computers running 10.4