RE: After successfull passwordless ssh login, unable to do rsync

2011-03-31 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello Hendrik and thanks for your patience in explanations ;-) > Again: > > 1) rsync -e ssh /local/path user@remoteserver:/remote/path > This will use *SSH* authentication to setup the connection, > and then access the filesystem using user's rights. > > 2) rsync /local/path rsync://remoteser

RE: After successfull passwordless ssh login, unable to do rsync

2011-03-28 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello again... > > I have to say that on a similar setup, I'm succeeding with > the command > > I told you before. > > Then you are using the rsync daemon method, and you will have > to check on the server side to allow access without passwords > in /etc/rsyncd.conf, or make use of the enviro

RE: After successfull passwordless ssh login, unable to do rsync

2011-03-28 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello Hendrik and thanks for your reply. > "rsync rsync://host" is different from "rsync -e ssh path host:/path" > > using ssh, you want the 2nd form I have to say that on a similar setup, I'm succeeding with the command I told you before. I think I have to go a bit deeper in details: I'm using

After successfull passwordless ssh login, unable to do rsync

2011-03-28 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello everybody. I got a strange problem, which I hope to solve with your help. I'm doing "remote backups" using rsync in an ssh tunnel. In the last setup I realized, something is driving me crazy and I can't find *what* the problem is. I managed to successfully login via ssh in a "passwordless"

Re: Almost desperate on rsync from macbook to NAS

2009-11-04 Thread Boniforti Flavio
2009/11/4 henri : > >> rsync -ahzv --delete --progress --numeric-ids --ignore-errors >> "/Users/bonny/Music/iTunes Music" >> "rsync://r...@192.168.1.100/musica/iTunes Music" > > > I am guessing that your iTunes Music folder is well 50MB. As such, testing > with a smaller directory will reduce the t

Re: Almost desperate on rsync from macbook to NAS

2009-11-01 Thread Boniforti Flavio
2009/10/31 Matt McCutchen : > On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 17:06 +0100, Boniforti Flavio wrote: >> I'm almost getting exhausted, thus I have to bother you people to get some >> help. > > That's a non sequitur.  Check > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#

Almost desperate on rsync from macbook to NAS

2009-10-31 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello list. I'm almost getting exhausted, thus I have to bother you people to get some help. I simply want to sync my "iTunes Music" folder from my MacBook over to my NAS. The scenario is like this: source path: "/Users/bonny/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/" (in here there are all the subfolders I wa

[SOLVED] RE: Problems while transferring big files

2009-04-16 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> I'm coming back to this issue, which I did not have time to > go on further... > > One of the DSL lines has been ugpraded: > > Before = 5000/500 > Actual = 2/1000 [cut] > The conclusion is, there seems to be a "fixed timeout" which > happens at constant times. What can I do now? OK, I'

RE: What could this be? Transfer error code 16

2009-04-02 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> This looks like an application is running where the backup is > to be made. The application opens and locks the files > with an exclusive lock and the rsync program must then wait > until it is freed by the application or times out. > > This is a typical problem under Windows. Can you ask th

RE: Problems while transferring big files

2009-04-01 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> All right, so it's a timeout. That means either the rsync > protocol deadlocked (which would constitute a bug) or the > network lost data. To determine which, please run all three I'm coming back to this issue, which I did not have time to go on further... One of the DSL lines has been ug

What could this be? Transfer error code 16

2009-03-31 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hy people, where could this be coming from? rsync: send_files failed to open "Alfredo Polti SA/wz_ALFREDO_POLTI_SA.ac0" (in Winway_z-32): Device or resource busy (16) rsync: send_files failed to open "Alfredo Polti SA/wz_ALFREDO_POLTI_SA.ac3" (in Winway_z-32): Device or resource busy (16) rsync er

RE: Problems while transferring big files

2009-03-09 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> You are missing rsync's output to stderr. There should be at > a minimum "rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream > (code 12)", and probably a preceding error message that would > give us an idea of what the problem is. Adjust your setup so > you can capture the stderr, or if all e

RE: Problems while transferring big files

2009-03-09 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> No, rsync's post-transfer checksum will catch the corruption, > and rsync will redo the transfer. IOW, rsync is designed to > recover from false block matches, except that false matches > in a compressed transfer can cause a fatal error by throwing > the -z protocol out of sync. So, Matt, w

RE: Problems while transferring big files

2009-03-09 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> That is just the error code and its interpretation. What > error message comes prior to that? This is the whole log: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --port=8873 --delete --ignore-errors --numeric-ids \ --delete-excluded --stats --progress localhost::Carlo/ \ /mnt/remote/Customer/daily.0/Carlo/

Problems while transferring big files

2009-03-05 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello there, is it a known issue/problem with rsync transferring big files (let's say over 0,5 GB)? I'm using "rsync -rtz" to transfer over an SSH tunnel and I always get 12 Error in rsync protocol data stream Any suggestions on how to solve this? Maybe removing "z" compression could be helping?

RE: How to speed up rsync when haveing lots of files

2009-03-04 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> This question has been answered. Upgrade to 3.0.5 on both sides. Why has upgrading to 3.0.5 to be done *on both sides*? Any explanation?! As I'm running Debian Lenny (which has 3.0.3), do I have to switch to Debian Sid to get it upgraded? Thanks, Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL Via

RE: How to speed up rsync when haveing lots of files

2009-03-03 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> You should not use -z at ALL with large numbers of small > files. The increased latency of the > compression/decompression will far exceed any time saved in > transmission. You're not on a 300 baud modem, I assume? > -z should be used when you are sending large files that are > compressib

RE: On which side these errors are?

2009-03-03 Thread Boniforti Flavio
> It would help if you gave the command used. > The opendir refers to a module name "Profili", but without > knowing if you're syncing to or from the module I can't say > whether it's source or destination. Yes, of course you're right. The module "profili" is the remote server which I'm syncing

On which side these errors are?

2009-03-02 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello list. I've got following: rsync: opendir "client05" (in Profili) failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: delete_file: rmdir(client02/SendTo) failed: Permission denied (13) Am I correct if I say that the "opendir" is related to the source I'm trying to rsync, but the "delete_file" is related

Slow network may be causing this?

2009-02-23 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello there, I'm transferring with rsnapshot in an SSH tunnel data from a remote Windows 2003 SBS Server to my Linux Server. While transferring a 3GB-File, I get: 2009/02/23 23:32:37 [3888] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes [sender]: Connection reset by peer (104) 2009/02/23 23

What's happening now here?

2009-02-18 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello list. I'm doing nightly syncs over SSH with rsnapshot, and now rsync gives me strange errors, like: rsync: failed to connect to localhost: Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) [receiver=3.0.3] -

rsync on Debian Lenny exit codes

2009-02-10 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello list. I'm posting here although I'm actually running rsync from within rsnapshot, but the problem is really rsync-related. I've set up remote backups: remote client to backup from is Windows Server 2003 with sshd and rsyncd running, local server is Debian Linux (Lenny) with rsnapshot config

Re: Newbie problems

2007-06-02 Thread Boniforti Flavio
On 6/2/07, Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How should I be setting "uid" and "gid" in the server's conf file? You should set both to root so that the server (more properly called a daemon) has the power to set the ownership of the backup files. Otherwise, the daemon will silently ski

Newbie problems

2007-05-28 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Hello there... I'd like to have some doubts cleared out... therefore I'm posting here... I want to back-up my PC's /home directory onto another Linux PC. On the "server" I've set up a directory called /backup and now I'd like to know which permissions it should have for that my backups succeed.