DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5887] New: RFE: --link-any-dest option considers contents only, ignores name

2008-11-10 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5887 Summary: RFE: --link-any-dest option considers contents only, ignores name Product: rsync Version: 3.1.0 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity:

Re: [RSync] Re: How to delete files older than X on backup during sync?

2008-11-10 Thread Henri S
>LBackup is not intended for large scale deployment, unless used in >combination with some sort of file system management tool. If you are backing up up client machines, chances are that their configuration will be changing in the near future. In addition, there are may be different operating sys

Re: [RSync] Re: How to delete files older than X on backup during sync?

2008-11-10 Thread Henri S
You could setup the backups of the 200 clients. However, it would be easier to setup the backup of a couple of file servers? That would simplify the situation. Then you can say to people that If you file is on the server then it is backed up. If you want to backup the data on 200 client machines y

Re: Current status of --inplace?

2008-11-10 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 09:57 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: > In the 3.0.4 version of the man pagem dated June 29, 2008, it still > states: > > """ > (5) the efficiency of rsync’s delta-transfer algorithm may be reduced if > some data in the destination file is overwritten before it can be copied > to

Re: [RSync] Re: How to delete files older than X on backup during sync?

2008-11-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Thomas von Eyben wrote: Should it be a problem to have it backup 200 clients to a couple of xraids (perhaps to be changed to an xsan). If these 200 clients are going to have a lot of file changes between the backup periods, then I'd say you may run into issues of the backup never finishin

Re: [RSync] Re: How to delete files older than X on backup during sync?

2008-11-10 Thread Thomas von Eyben
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Henri S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>1. delete the oldest backup (.7) >>2. Increment all the other backups +1 >> (.6 -> .7, .5 -> .6, .4 -> .5, .3 -> .4, and .2 -> .3) >>3. Create a hard link between .1 -> .2 >>4. Run rsync from the source int

Re: [RSync] Re: rsync for the brave

2008-11-10 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 10:59 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Matt McCutchen wrote: > > By the way, if some of your excludes are intended to match only files at > > the top level of F: (rather than in a subdirectory), consider anchoring > > them with a leading slash, e.g.: > Can I assume that

Re: [RSync] Re: rsync for the brave

2008-11-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Matt McCutchen wrote: Not really. The leading slash would require the pattern to match the entire path of the file starting from the source directory (here "/cygdrive/f", i.e., "F:\"). For example, your current exclude rule "- Temporary Items" would match both "F:\Temporary Items" and "F:\Foo\B

Re: Change in workings of -K switch in 3.0.3?

2008-11-10 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:29:38AM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > You are right, the combination of -K, --delete and incremental recursion > is broken. I've committed Matt's fix for this into the git repository for both 3.0.5 (which is about to get a new pre-release) and 3.1.0 (the enhancement bra

Re: [RSync] Re: rsync for the brave

2008-11-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Matt McCutchen wrote: (My boss' last name is the same as yours.) --delete-excluded prevents the --exclude="Network Trash Folder" rule from protecting the "Network Trash Folder" on the destination from deletion; that's the whole point of --delete-excluded. Aha! No wonder ... To protect

Current status of --inplace?

2008-11-10 Thread Steve Bergman
In the 3.0.4 version of the man pagem dated June 29, 2008, it still states: """ (5) the efficiency of rsync’s delta-transfer algorithm may be reduced if some data in the destination file is overwritten before it can be copied to a position later in the file """ Also, I know I have read somewhere

Re: [RSync] Re: How to delete files older than X on backup during sync?

2008-11-10 Thread Henri S
>1. delete the oldest backup (.7) >2. Increment all the other backups +1 > (.6 -> .7, .5 -> .6, .4 -> .5, .3 -> .4, and .2 -> .3) >3. Create a hard link between .1 -> .2 >4. Run rsync from the source into .1 This is esentially what LBackup is doing. The LBackup project also