Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-17 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 9/16/2009 11:11 AM, Andrew Gideon wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:01:04 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: It can also potentially be extended in other directions. For one crazy example, the utility (or some other utility that modifies the first utilities configuration) could listen on a port for me

Re: Proposed tweaks

2009-09-15 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 9/15/2009 9:48 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 21:13 -0400, Lee Winter wrote: The purpose of this note is to inquire about your collective interest in optimizing rsync for certain uses, particularly atomic, unidirectional transfers with few or single writer and many, often ver

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-15 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 9/14/2009 3:55 PM, Andrew Gideon wrote: If there is one or more bottleneck link in the network (places where traffic feeds from one or more links with aggregate larger capacity into a link with smaller capacity) then it makes sense that this work has to be done on the router that is on the se

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 9/14/2009 9:25 AM, Andrew Gideon wrote: So control is most effective at the sending rsync, which suggests that bwlimit is a good approach. But the most information is available at the receiving router, suggesting that shaping at the router is also a good approach. Interesting. Exactly wha

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-13 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 9/13/2009 9:20 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 21:02 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I am using rsync to back up across a VPN. Unfortunately, every so often the home office miscreants drop a big block of data into the backup and that particular backup cycle takes many hours

time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-13 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I am using rsync to back up across a VPN. Unfortunately, every so often the home office miscreants drop a big block of data into the backup and that particular backup cycle takes many hours. These same people also complain when net pipe is filled during the day. What I need is an ability to

looking for Windows rsync without cygwin

2008-12-31 Thread Eric S. Johansson
wondering if anyone has built a native port yet. It looks like I may have to go through eliminate delta copy from a half a dozen machines because of transfer lockups. Conversation on the rsnapshot list indicates that using cygwin may be the source of my problems. """Yes, there's a well-known Cyg

filename too long problem

2008-06-12 Thread Eric S. Johansson
running rsnapshot for backing up Windows PCs, I'm getting an error message that looks like: rsync: readlink "/Administrator/My Documents/MIT OpenCourseware/DiscreteTimeSignalProcessing/6-341Fall-2005/6-341Fall-2005/NR/rdonlyres/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-341Fall-2005/244BA331

Re: yet another rsync encryption program

2008-01-09 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Milutin Voinivich wrote: How to use murk when rsync entire directory? I expect in conjunction with find. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

yet another rsync encryption program

2008-01-01 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: Matt McCutchen wrote: bOn Mon, 2007-12-24 at 18:34 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'd love for the remote backup to be encrypted locally so one could backup to a hostile host. That limits your options. one would think. For now, le

I must be psychic: Re: Pushing hard-linked backups

2007-12-31 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Matt McCutchen wrote: bOn Mon, 2007-12-24 at 18:34 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'd love for the remote backup to be encrypted locally so one could backup to a hostile host. That limits your options. one would think. For now, lets go with the plaintext

Re: Pushing hard-linked backups

2007-12-29 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Matt McCutchen wrote: Eric, Sorry for the slow response. no problem. You're the one who's doing me a favor so take the time you need. Yes, encryption done with --source-filter would work essentially that way. The downside compared to something like duplicity is that the backup host gets to

Re: Rsync and dispersed storage [Re: Pushing hard-linked backups]

2007-12-29 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Matt McCutchen wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 00:15 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: it is possible, I've seen it done, but I can't find the library/tool anymore. I'm curious: what was the nature of this tool (if you remember)? A modified version of rsync? A dispersed storage

Re: Pushing hard-linked backups

2007-12-27 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Charles Marcus wrote: I'd rather see rsync support something like this (if it is even possible or practical): http://www.cleversafe.org/dispersed-storage/how-it-works it is possible, I've seen it done, but I can't find the library/tool anymore. again with a pre and post processing capabilit

Re: Pushing hard-linked backups

2007-12-25 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Matt McCutchen wrote: bOn Mon, 2007-12-24 at 18:34 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'd love for the remote backup to be encrypted locally so one could backup to a hostile host. That limits your options. one would think. For now, lets go with the plaintext push form of rsnapshot. a

Re: Pushing hard-linked backups

2007-12-24 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Matt McCutchen wrote: - Are you backing up just your own laptop, or should the setup accommodate multiple machines? seems to me that the first is a subset of the latter - Is it a priority to keep the client script simple? it would be nice but hiding complexity behind a good ui is ok too.

Re: post transfer script for forcing perms

2007-11-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Matt McCutchen wrote: On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 17:45 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: Using some of the techniques you show here, it would be possible to trigger the backup process and push the data from the laptop. Yes, push backups can be done quite elegantly by pushing the new data to a

Re: post transfer script for forcing perms

2007-11-18 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Matt McCutchen wrote: ... thanks for the suggestions. This gives me some options to work with. I really like the idea of the post-xfer exec option but unfortunately, my installed rsync is a bit old (2.6.6) and I'm not exactly keen on trashing my environment with tarball installs because o

post transfer script for forcing perms

2007-11-17 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I'm looking to see of it is practical to have an rsync server run a script after a transfer finishes. I am moving files (python source) from windows (common point of development) to a few linux machines. big problem being owner/group/perms are always wrong and python's module install process i

Re: error installing rsync in windows xp

2006-09-26 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Imran Hussain wrote: Try DeltaCopy from http://aboutmyx.com. It is a Windows wrapper around rsync. this is broken for me. I don't get the buttons on the right hand side of the files/folders to copy box no matter what size I set the enclosing box to. -- To unsubscribe or change options: ht