Re: --fake-super locally?

2013-07-21 Thread Grant
ounted with user_xattr. - Grant >>>> Can I somehow use --fake-super or something similar to save the >>>> original ownership info to ACLs? >>> >>> Sure, should work fine. Keep in mind that --fake-super affects >>> both sides of a local transfer unle

Re: --fake-super locally?

2013-07-21 Thread Grant
file: destination/test # owner: root # group: root user::rw- group::r-- other::r-- What could I have done wrong? I enabled ext3 ACL extended attributes in the kernel and booted with user_xattr. - Grant -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscr

--fake-super locally?

2013-07-18 Thread Grant
ACLs? - Grant -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: wildcards and nested files

2013-07-18 Thread Grant
>>Is there a rule I can apply to figure out the proper order for includes >>and excludes? > > Rules are evaluated in the order they are defined. The first rule with a > pattern that that matches is the rule that applies. That makes sense, thank you for all your help. -

Re: wildcards and nested files

2013-07-03 Thread Grant
didn't explicitly include > previously (order matters). I find it much easier to list both in a > single file rather than using two since order is so important. Is there a rule I can apply to figure out the proper order for includes and excludes? I found that: - /folder1/folder2 needs

Re: wildcards and nested files

2013-07-03 Thread Grant
n, but it specifies > a FILE that contains include patterns (one per line). Blank > lines in the file and lines starting with ';' or '#' are > ignored. If FILE is -, the list will be read from standard > input.

Re: wildcards and nested files

2013-07-03 Thread Grant
rom file, the + is optional. > These are both specializations of the generic --filter='merge filters.txt' > filter option. See the rsync man page for the gory details. That's a great feature and I think it should be referenced in some way under --include-from and --exclude-from

Re: wildcards and nested files

2013-07-03 Thread Grant
age make reference to this feature under --include-from and --exclude-from ? > I also added a -i (--itemize-changes) because I am trying to generate > a habit of always pairing it with -v since -v isn't all that useful > without it. Nice, I'm loving -i now. Thank you for your h

Re: wildcards and nested files

2013-07-02 Thread Grant
r/** > - - * So the includes are in excludes.txt prefixed with "+ " and the excludes are prefixed with "- - "? If I want to rsync the /var/lib/portage/world file I should add the following to excludes.txt? + /var + /var/lib + /var/lib/portage + /var/lib/portage/world Also I think

Re: wildcards and nested files

2013-07-02 Thread Grant
t delete /home/user from the destination? Is there a workaround for that? I'd like to keep the source and destination in sync. - Grant >>> I'm trying to use wildcards and nested files and I think there >>> must be a better way than what I'm doing. If I want to co

Re: wildcards and nested files

2013-07-02 Thread Grant
> rsync -aRzv /etc /home/*/.maildir rsyncuser@hostname: I'd actually like to use --files-from so it's easier to manage and --files-from doesn't support wildcards. That's why it gets so messy. - Grant >> I'm trying to use wildcards and nested files and I t

wildcards and nested files

2013-07-02 Thread Grant
nclude-from 'include-from.txt' --exclude-from 'exclude-from.txt' / rsyncuser@hostname: files-from.txt: /etc include-from.txt: /home /home/* /home/*/.maildir exclude-from.txt: /home/*/* - Grant -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list.

Re: rsync won't hit the target

2013-07-02 Thread Grant
path specified on the command in authorized_keys was forcing the files into a certain directory. - Grant > I'm trying to get rsync to copy some files across the network to a >> particular folder, but it always drops them in the user's home >> directory and changes the

rsync won't hit the target

2013-07-01 Thread Grant
sing rsync like this: rsync -avz --delete --include '/etc' --exclude '/*' / user@hostname:/home/user/backup/ - Grant -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listin

speedup is always 0.99

2013-02-22 Thread Grant
I'm syncing from a USB disk to my hard disk like this: rsync -vr /path/to/usb/disk/dir/ /path/to/hard/disk/dir/ But the speedup is always 0.99 which I think means it is just copying the files each time instead of syncing them. What could be wrong? - Grant -- Please use reply-all for

Re: rsync'ing an rdiff-backup repository

2011-08-19 Thread Grant
iven that this is an rsync of an rdiff-backup repository which means the original permissions, times(?), groups, and ownerships are preserved in the rdiff-backup-data folder for restores? Maybe it doesn't require much overhead so it doesn't matter either way? - Grant -- Please use reply-al

Re: rsync'ing an rdiff-backup repository

2011-08-19 Thread Grant
he following seems to be working. Should it be OK? command="rsync --server -vlogDtprz --delete . /backup",from="12.34.56.78",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-pty - Grant -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscri

rsync'ing an rdiff-backup repository

2011-08-18 Thread Grant
econd rdiff-backup repository instead of rsync'ing the first one? - Grant -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Rsync with NAS & Storagecraft ShadowProtect Desktop

2010-12-27 Thread Al Grant
Hi Guys, I hope I can get some advice here which will let me better understand rsync a bit better. The situation is this: We have about 5 computers in a workgroup setup running XP mainly. Via Storagecraft ShadowProtect Desktop they run Weekly full backups with hourly incrementals M-Sun. There is

Re: Rsync, CP and Cron job workaround?

2010-01-01 Thread Al Grant
rsync version is 3.0.6 protocol version 30. -Al -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Rsync%2C-CP-and-Cron-job-workaround--tp26989197p26990034.html Sent from the Samba - rsync mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the

Rsync, CP and Cron job workaround?

2010-01-01 Thread Al Grant
Hi, I have a Linux based NAS, which unfortunately appears to be a bit underpowered, heres why I say that: 5 PC's backup to the NAS on a weekly full with hourly incrementals 7 days a week between 7am and 6pm (2 week retention policy). There is no problem with that. Where there is a problem is ge

Re: Preserving overwritten/deleted items

2005-10-03 Thread Grant Jacobs
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:28:09AM +1300, Grant Jacobs wrote: You seem to be missing the point I was trying to make. Nope. Go back and re-read my reply -- in it you'll see that I state that the backups you mentioned are being made correctly. If you're not seeing that, you need to

Re: Preserving overwritten/deleted items

2005-10-03 Thread Grant Jacobs
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:54:20PM +1300, Grant Jacobs wrote: e.g. if you have a _file_ "tracker" on the source and a _directory_ "tracker" on the destination, rsync will try delete the directory > regardless of what options you give it. Of course -- it has to remove

Re: Preserving overwritten/deleted items

2005-10-03 Thread Grant Jacobs
sn't seem to work on making rsync delete destination directories that have files, at least under OSX 10.4.2 without --delete et al. Grant Re: Preserving overwritten/deleted items Wayne Davison Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:04:01 -0700 On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:15:27PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: >

rsync works fine when I'm root on the client, but not as a non-root user

2004-12-08 Thread Grant Carmichael
   root    7 Dec  8 10:50 one -rw-rw-rw-   1 gcarmich gcarmich    4 Dec  8 10:39 two   Regards,   Grant   -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

rsync working with root, but not with other users

2004-12-08 Thread Grant Carmichael
   root    7 Dec  8 10:50 one -rw-rw-rw-   1 gcarmich gcarmich    4 Dec  8 10:39 two   Regards,   Grant -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

rsync --files-from with symlink in path

2004-03-23 Thread Jeremy Grant
The new script works great as long as there is a not a symlinked dir in the path. So far I have nto been able to find anything on the list or in the main page to help me with this. Does anyone have any ideas how I get this to work with the --files-from option? Jeremy Grant Unix System Admin VML -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

VMS

2001-02-15 Thread McKechnie, Grant (Contractor)
Good morning all,   Will RSYNC compile on VMS.  I have a requirement to synchronise data files between a Solaris node and a VMS node.   Any help appreciated.   Regards Grant Grant McKechnie UNIX Systems Consultant NextGen Unix TEAM (: +44 (0) 20 7264 2083 x6331 ): +44 (0) 7799 746 341