Source files in use or modified while transfer

2010-06-03 Thread HomeRun4711
Hi! I have a question on rsync's way to deal with files in use or files that are modified on the source while they are transferrred to the destination. Yes, I searched the web and found In rsync, transfers are done to a temporary file, which is cut over atomically, so the transfer either

rsync via restricted ssh command=

2010-06-03 Thread Mark Constable
I've read a few tutorials about how to use rsync via ssh using the command= functionality to restrict where the user can sync to. I've got this on the on the destination side in it's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys... command=rsync --server -vvnlogDtpre.iLsf --timeout=999 .

Re: rsync via restricted ssh command=

2010-06-03 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 20:18 +1000, Mark Constable wrote: I've read a few tutorials about how to use rsync via ssh using the command= functionality to restrict where the user can sync to. I've got this on the on the destination side in it's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys... command=rsync --server

Re: rsync via restricted ssh command=

2010-06-03 Thread Mark Constable
On 2010-06-04, Matt McCutchen wrote: I've read a few tutorials about how to use rsync via ssh using the command= functionality to restrict where the user can sync to. ... or (my preference) use a single-use rsync daemon. See: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4163 I didn't know

Re: Source files in use or modified while transfer

2010-06-03 Thread Carlos Carvalho
HomeRun4711 (homerun4...@googlemail.com) wrote on 3 June 2010 11:27: I have a question on rsync's way to deal with files in use or files that are modified on the source while they are transferrred to the destination. [removed] But what if e.g. a large mailbox file is changed on the source

Re: Backup to NTFS USB drive --compare-dest not working

2010-06-03 Thread Sergey Shatokhin
When I'm running rsync --compare-dest on a local Linux volume (ext4) it works as expected (duplicate files not created) however when same commands with same options are run on NTFS USB drive (in my scenario below mounted to /share/external/sdt5) all the files are copied regardless if they have

Re: Backup to NTFS USB drive --compare-dest not working

2010-06-03 Thread nomnex
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 01:03 +0100, Sergey Shatokhin wrote: When I'm running rsync --compare-dest on a local Linux volume (ext4) it works as expected (duplicate files not created) however when same commands with same options are run on NTFS USB drive (in my scenario below mounted to