Bogus rsync "Success" message when out of disk space

2002-11-07 Thread John Van Essen
"[%d] (%s%s%s) heap statistics:\n", Could you prepend a newline to the beginning of this so it does not blend in with the last line of any transfer-related output? rprintf(FINFO, RSYNC_NAME "\n[%d] (%s%s%s) heap statistics:\n", Thanks. -- John Van Essen Un

Mailman 'held' messages (was SPAM on List...)

2002-12-08 Thread John Van Essen
erpt:'), ! ## 21-Jan-2002 JVE Escape html in text to prevent display problems ! TextArea('fulltext-%d' % id, cgi.escape(text), rows=10, cols=80)]) t.AddCellInfo(row+1, col-1, align='right') form.AddItem(t) form.AddItem('') + ## 02-May-2002 JVE Add name tag at end + form.AddItem('\n\n' % (count+1)) Hope this helps. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: directories that change into symlinks

2003-01-06 Thread John Van Essen
ion more easily. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3DGamers Systems Software Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, 05 Jan 2003, David Garamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >just to correct myself: this has nothing to do with rdiff-bac

Re: Bug or feature? --delete-after + symlinks

2003-01-06 Thread John Van Essen
t have been replaced with a symlink may have the info you need: - Forwarded message begins here - From: John Van Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 02:05:47 CST Subject: Re: directories that change into symlinks What you need is the --force option. It's not obvious

Re: Question regarding exclude and invalid arg messages

2003-07-02 Thread John Van Essen
gument Since these files are being created on your "FAT32 external HD", something in these filenames is not allowed on that filesystem. Perhaps the double-quote and question mark characters are not valid in a filename? This wold certainly be the case for a Windows system. Thus mkstemp fai

Re: Unhelpful error message when matching hosts in access list[PATCH]

2003-07-04 Thread John Van Essen
ress (by some clever criterion), then this match either should >  not be done, or the confusing error message should not be printed. I had submitted a similar bug report and small patch on April 10: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2003-April/010404.html There were no followups to it a

Re: EOF error at io.c line 165

2003-07-30 Thread John Van Essen
t and close the connection. This can happen if this end has received the file list from the other end, and is taking too long to generate its own file list and start any needed file transfers. The default timeout is zero - meaning no timeout. Did you use a --timeout argument? Or are you using a dae

Re: issue with rsync 2.5.6

2003-08-08 Thread John Van Essen
to have at least as much free space as the largest file being transferred. If the copy fails due to disk full, the temporary will be deleted, and it may *look* like you have lots of free space after rsync finishes, wheras you actually ran out of free space while rsync was running. -- John

Re: bad hardlinks with rsync

2003-09-19 Thread John Van Essen
ileA and FileB have the same inode in rsync's filelist. FileA may even no longer exist (that's a risk you take of rsyncing live systems). Since the inode number are what's used to figure out hardlinks, FileA and FileB are hardlinked together on the target system. I have no suggestion for avoiding this pitfall and still use hard links. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3DGamers Systems Software Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: rsync 2.5.6 still hangs

2003-09-23 Thread John Van Essen
eing cached in memory to allow the task to complete more quickly - such would be the case with repeated interactive testing. > Also, use of more v than -vv can itself cause problems. True. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3DGamers Systems Software Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: use rsync with filenames containing "-"

2003-10-08 Thread John Van Essen
ng one of these (note single vs. double quotes): '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/band\ -\ album/' "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/band\\ -\\ album/" '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:"/path/band - album/"' "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:'/path/band - album/'" This mig

RE: Never up to date

2003-10-09 Thread John Van Essen
, of course, the ones that > showed up with -v do not state 'up to date', while the others do. Windows file timestamps have a granularity of 2 seconds instead of 1. Use --modify-window=1 whenever rsyncing with samba mount filesystems. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[

Re: Rsync deletes too much?

2003-10-12 Thread John Van Essen
#x27; --exclude '/usr/var/tmp/' --exclude '/usr/var/run/' / /tmp/bkup/ | >grep -c deleting > ] 105668 You are using -x, which will not include the contents of any mounted partitions. 105,668 deletes and no update of the destination makes me think that /usr on the source is

Re: --bwlimit not working right

2003-10-17 Thread John Van Essen
t times to make it more accurate which would probably solve your problem. See this thread in the archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07270.html A corrected patch is in the next message (7271). -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bad transfer

2003-10-24 Thread John Van Essen
ave the userid set to 'nobody' here. > and my request from the client machine : >  > rsync -avz--progress -r --ignore-errors --password-file=/etc/rsync-pass > --exclude-from=/etc/rsync-exclude [EMAIL PROTECTED]::foo_home /home/ >  > Please, help >  > Francois --

Re: simple compile

2003-10-27 Thread John Van Essen
he function are both available. What does yours say? The line numbers might be different. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Tom Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >  > Hi, thanks for the reply. I apologize for not having a

Next release of rsync - when?

2003-11-10 Thread John Van Essen
t are variants of "It's already fixed in CVS". Are there any particular reasons for holding back the next release? Will the next release be 2.6.0 because of the protocol number bump? I'd sure like to see the full list of changes since 2.5.6 and begin testing a release candidate

Re: how rsync works

2003-11-24 Thread John Van Essen
invite constructive comments and patches (on > list) but if someone else wants to pick up the ball and run > with it i would be pleased to hand it off. >  > I have formatted it in HTML so if you care it can > be found at http://www.pegasys.ws/how-rsync-works.html I think a document such

Re: Need help with exclude

2003-11-25 Thread John Van Essen
mend the 2nd: rsync -av --exclude=/test/dir1/ /foo/test serv2:/foo rsync -av --exclude=/dir1/ /foo/test/ serv2:/foo/test/ As a matter of habit and principle, I always specify the complete paths down to the trailing / when I rsync two directories. Then there's never any confusion about wh

How hard links are processed (was Test case for hard link failure)

2003-11-27 Thread John Van Essen
res more in-depth knowledge of rsync to utilize its various support routines, and I just don't feel that comfortable with it. So my rsyncs take an extra 20 minutes each night needlessly transferring hundreds of megabytes of log files. :-/ If anyone else cares to take on this project, be my g

Re: bogus hardlinks bug?

2003-11-30 Thread John Van Essen
;inode); } } #endif What happens if the sender, for whatever reason, has no hard link support compiled in? What will the receiver be reading? -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: rsync'd destination much larger than source

2003-11-30 Thread John Van Essen
decimal place on the df output? Maybe the source has 3.5 GB _free_, not 3.5 GB used? -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: rsync / ssh -i

2003-12-05 Thread John Van Essen
the -i option and its argument in rsync's -e option argument: rsync {options} -e 'ssh -i /path/to/identity' {source} {dest} I use this form quite frequently in scripts. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change

Re: [PATCH] seg fault fix

2003-12-05 Thread John Van Essen
ch is no longer needed, IMO. It is very likely that the original logic flaw was found and fixed between versions 2.4.4 and 2.5.6 (2.5.7 being only a security fix). -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.

Re: [RFC] transfer files listed in a file.

2003-12-14 Thread John Van Essen
icial release (hopefully by Christmas)? Thanks. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TODO hardlink reporting problem - fixed?

2003-12-16 Thread John Van Essen
users 29 Dec 16 12:39 a2 -rw-r--r--3 jve users 29 Dec 16 12:39 a3 -rw-r--r-- 5 jve users 29 Dec 16 12:39 a4 -rw-r--r--5 jve users 29 Dec 16 12:39 a5 -rw-r--r--5 jve users 29 Dec 16 12:39 b1 -rw-r--r--5 jve use

TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2003-12-16 Thread John Van Essen
; list, which seems unnecessary. Indeed! It does! Very wasteful. It should only need a list of pointers to the flist entries and sort that list. Furthermore, with the addition of the new multiple nodes flag bit requested above, the list of pointers would only contain pointers to flist entries with that bit set, resulting in a much smaller list. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: tty screwed up on ctrl-c

2003-12-17 Thread John Van Essen
s really needed. I tried that, and it works just fine. I used a much larger msleep to begin with so I could do a ps to verify that the ssh process goes away. It does. So it just needs that little bit of extra time to do its thang. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[

Re: preview release: 2.6.0pre1

2003-12-19 Thread John Van Essen
v2.6.0 the default remote shell is ssh instead of rsh. * * To use previous default of rsh: ./configure --with-rsh=rsh * ******** to make it really clear about the new default. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus

Unchanged file recopied + meaning of speedup (was: Is this correct?)

2003-12-29 Thread John Van Essen
. Note that in your second transfer, where it did have to resend the file, it was able to match all 8 GB of data and transferred only a small fraction of that in matching checksum values. Hence a speedup of 1600+. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Shorten long lines in man page options summary

2003-12-29 Thread John Van Essen
newlines Comments? Suggestions? Since this doesn't involve executable code, can this get into 2.6.0 (without another "pre" release)? -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/

Re: BAD rsync, or is it bad me?

2003-12-30 Thread John Van Essen
nation as "backenp650:" And that would indeed be using the home directory on the destination. Not bad rsync - bad you! ;-) I would suggest always using --dry-run when debugging scripts like this and then remove it when it looks like things will work as you intended. -- John Van

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-04 Thread John Van Essen
in a day or two after I've tested it. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Lester Hightower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I read with interest the mailing list thread found here: > > http://marc

Re: rsync 2.6.0: ./configure goes into a loop

2004-01-05 Thread John Van Essen
st again, which should succeed and then go on to do the configuration. But in your case that test fails the second time around (and so on it recurses, infinitely, rewriting configure.lineno over and over). Something is apparently wrong either with expr or with bash. What does the above code look like

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-05 Thread John Van Essen
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:35:03AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: >> I've modified hlink.c to use a list of file struct pointers instead of >> copies of the actual file structs themselves, so that will save m

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-05 Thread John Van Essen
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:23:17 -0800, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:30:03AM -0800, jw schultz wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:35:03AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: >> > I've modified hlink.c to use a list of file struct pointers

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-06 Thread John Van Essen
e skipped since they are hardlinked later. The final walk-through that creates the hardlinks for the non-head files can walk the qsorted list and use the head pointer as the target for the hardlinks of the non-nead files. No extra memory required beyond that already required for the qsorted pointer

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-06 Thread John Van Essen
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:09:23 -0800, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:44:37AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: >> I did that differently (and more simply, I think). Changed only one line >> and added two lines: >> >> @@ -24,8

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-07 Thread John Van Essen
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:11:54 -0800, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:04:19AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> > union links { >> > struct

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-07 Thread John Van Essen
onsistently. So the final comparison can be done on the addresses of the file_structs, since they are not moved around and will remain constant: return ( ( f1 < f2 ) ? -1 : ( f1 > f2 ) ); (Unsure if the code is right, but you get my drift.) For filesets with many hardlinks, this w

2.6.0 "file has vanished" fails to set exit code on local client

2004-01-07 Thread John Van Essen
I haven't coded anything pending review of this bug by whoever coded the IOERR_VANISHED feature to verify my analysis. (Wayne?) -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-07 Thread John Van Essen
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:03:13 -0800, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:04:34AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: >> >> Right. You've just explained the here-to-fore unknown reason >> why that sibling hlinking was being done in a separate

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-07 Thread John Van Essen
ructure when --hard-links is not used). Shall we take the coding details discussion off-list? I imagine that the faithful readers of this mailing list are getting a bit weary reading about this fairly obscure bit of code... -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: Implementing rsync hard-link improvements

2004-01-08 Thread John Van Essen
job, so I will have very little free time (certainly not enough for anything substantial here) > I don't want to duplicate the work that others would enjoy doing, so > feel free to let me know if you start on something. Can I feel free to let you know you can do it all? And I will go

Re: 2.6.0 "file has vanished" fails to set exit code on local client

2004-01-13 Thread John Van Essen
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:11:35AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: >> But if the client is local and the server is remote, IOERR_VANISHED >> gets set on the remote server, but is never passed to the local >> cl

Re: 2.6.0 "file has vanished" fails to set exit code on local client

2004-01-13 Thread John Van Essen
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:47:30 -0800, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:38:23PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: >> Are you by any chance doing internal rsyncs? > > No. What remote shell are you using? If it doesn't propagate the exit &

Re: 2.6.0 "file has vanished" fails to set exit code on local client

2004-01-15 Thread John Van Essen
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:45:22PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: >> But as I mentioned, it also happens with a daemon > > Yeah, the daemon's exit code is not available to the client, so it is > getting

File that "vanish"es between readdir and stat is not IO error

2004-01-19 Thread John Van Essen
and set IOERR_VANISHED? -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: 2.6.0 in cygwin problem

2004-01-21 Thread John Van Essen
d does, for me). >> > > Hello! > > Thank you! > It works :-) Another happy Cygwin user. :) Since this has been such a long-standing, important bug and is finally now fixed, maybe the contents of that message announcing the 1.5.6-1 cygwin dll deserves placement on the rsyn

Re: --exclude and --delete

2004-02-25 Thread John Van Essen
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Slootman wrote: >> On Wed 25 Feb 2004, andrew wrote: >> >>>rsync -av --exclude "/user/profile/" --delete /home/user [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home >>> >>>This works as I expect, sender:/home/user/profile/ is not copied, except >>>that recei

Re: HFS+ resource forks: WIP patch included

2004-03-12 Thread John Van Essen
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:11:35PM -0500, D Andrew Reynhout wrote: >> but I'm less clear on >> why (it appears) that *both* sides sort the flist. > > This is because the flist gets sent as it is created, so it is sent > unsorted. Wit

Re: exclude confusion: what does it match against?

2004-03-26 Thread John Van Essen
pattern: /foo/bar (note missing 'me') Source file: /home/me/foo/bar Target file: /dest/foo/bar (note missing 'me') Example cmd: rsync -a --relative /home/me /dest Source root: /home Target root: /dest I/E pattern: /home/me/foo/bar (note full path)

Re: --include vs. --exclude

2004-03-28 Thread John Van Essen
a --dry-run first to determine the names of the pdf files. Grep the -v output of rsync for '\.pdf$', store that list in a file, then do a real run with the files-from option. I didn't try this - so I haven't verified that this will work. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN

Re: File that "vanish"es between readdir and stat is not IO error

2004-03-30 Thread John Van Essen
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:21:16AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: >> In make_file(), when readlink_stat() fails, if error is NOENT >> then perhaps do the same that that send_files() now does and >>

Re: exclude confusion: what does it match against?

2004-03-30 Thread John Van Essen
r root, not the filesystem root or partition root. The source transfer root is the source path with any trailing node removed up to the last slash. If the source path *ends* with a slash, then nothing is removed and the source path *is* the transfer root. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus

--hard-link option now uses the first existing file - Excellent!

2004-04-02 Thread John Van Essen
(avoiding Copy on Write) after the client forks the generator, thus using less memory in systems that support CoW. I think this (perhaps reworded :D) is worth noting in the INTERNAL section. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or chan

Re: Rsync Log Error

2004-04-23 Thread John Van Essen
g our heads about... So ignoring all the 04/20 errors, brings us to the 04/21 errors. The ones at 04:30 looks like a minor shutdown problem that didn't affect the transfer. The one at 08:00 is from the kill. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: rsync-2.6.2: NFS clients confused after an rsync

2004-05-11 Thread John Van Essen
problem that is as obscure as this one is... :) -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: rsync-2.6.2: NFS clients confused after an rsync

2004-05-11 Thread John Van Essen
backup. I think Brian's very simple patch (refined version posted 5/11) using an extra set_modtime() arg and testing for make_backup is the right fix. That fix could be refined even further by also checking for any specified backup-dir. If one was given, then it will be OK to always restore m

Messages from Bugzilla not appearing on rsync list

2007-03-25 Thread John Van Essen
I posted a comment to bug 4402 a few days ago and it never appeared on the rsync mailing list. In the past, bugzilla posts automatically got emailed to the rsync list. The mailing list archive shows that the last message from bugzilla was received by the mailing list on Feb 25. Since then, these

Re: moderation?

2007-09-09 Thread John Van Essen
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/5/07, Martin Schr�der <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That didn't stop the asian spam... :-( > > I guess the sender of that spam subscribed to the list first? > Requiring a captcha for subscription may stop it from happening again.

Re: rsync: Please add an option to ignore vanished files

2008-03-10 Thread John Van Essen
ot; messages actually help pinpoint directories whose contents should be excluded, in this case via --exclude=/drbd/var/www/tmp/* Also, if you want, you can also check the exit code within a script and treat value 24 the same as a 0 (e.g. no extra warnings about failure). John Van Essen -- 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: bwlimit on rsync locally

2008-03-27 Thread John Van Essen
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Reeve Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does "bwlimit" option really work on rsync locally? Yes, it does. > rsync without --bwlimit: >> iostat; rsync -a -r --stats swapfile swapfile.rsync; iostat > sent 2147745923 bytes received 42 bytes 23472633.50 bytes/sec > ry

Re: bwlimit on rsync locally

2008-03-30 Thread John Van Essen
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Reeve Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyway to make rsync use direct I/O bypassing FS buffer? I'm not an expert on that by any means, but AFAIK, rsync supports that only via this patch: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/patches/drop-cache.diff (You'll have to co

No error messages in rsyncd log in 2.6.1pre-1

2004-04-27 Thread John Van Essen
here than just adding back a "!am_daemon" test? Also - I'd sure like to see a message in the rsyncd log when the file list transfer has been completed. That would help determine at what stage things are failing (and how long it took for the file transfer to complete, in case th

Re: measuring 2.6.1 improvements

2004-04-29 Thread John Van Essen
y be related to this bullet item in the NEWS file: * Changed hardlink info and file_struct + strings to use allocation pools. This reduces memory use for large file- sets and permits freeing memory to the OS. (J.W. Schultz) Wayne? JW? Any thoughts? -- John Van Esse

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-07 Thread John Van Essen
var/local/backups/latest 192.168.0.1:/var/local/backups/latest/ Unchanged content won't be disturbed. Changed or new content will get transferred. When that completes successfully, then do the second rsync, but do *not* use --delete-excluded. The second rsync should include latest a

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-17 Thread John Van Essen
d to Z. 3. If A (and B and Z) change and remain hardlinked, the new content will be transferred, A and B will be hardlinked, and the hardlink with Z is now lost because rsync doesn't know anything about it. Z on the target now contains old content and becomes independent. -- J

Re: multiple daemon sources

2004-07-26 Thread John Van Essen
at this was possible. It seems this also works for non-daemon mode as long as you specify the full paths, I believe (or use paths relative to the remote user's home directory). Can you please add examples of this to the man page Usage section? -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <

Re: HP-UX 11i and largefiles on rsync 2.6.2

2004-07-28 Thread John Van Essen
full_fname(fname), strerror(errno)); exit_cleanup(RERR_FILEIO); } Wayne - why is the "write failed" message not being displayed? It should have contained the EFBIG File Too Large error message. That would helped figure out the original problem (whi

--keep-dirlinks in combination with --one-file-system

2004-09-07 Thread John Van Essen
hould have been deleted will now be deleted. So the documentation for --keep-dirlinks should warn that also using -x (--one-file-system) has a side effect where symlinked directories followed by --keep-dirlinks that reside on another file system will not be processed for deletions. -- John

Determining your subscriber email address

2004-09-07 Thread John Van Essen
) The email address in <...> is the one used to send the email to you. Then you can use the mailman webpage for rsync (see the footer of this email) to get a password reminder emailed to you using that address. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To

Re: not always making hard links?

2004-09-10 Thread John Van Essen
llowing command line: > > rsync -avz --bwlimit=5000 /extra/pub/ 192.168.1.73::pub To preserve hardlinks, you need to include the -H option (it's not implied in the -a option). -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change op

Re: rsync 2.6.2 crash

2004-09-24 Thread John Van Essen
file that is included in the file list has been removed by the time the file metadata compare operation is performed. You are going to have to diagnose the other two problems by looking at the two paths in question. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Keep Alive packets

2004-10-07 Thread John Van Essen
d at least 60 seconds have elapsed since the last keep-alive? Also - as an optimization, if a --timeout value has been given then use 1/2 of that value for the keep-alive interval (instead of 60). -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change

Re: rsync creating 0-length files?

2004-11-30 Thread John Van Essen
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Dan Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We were doing a roughly 1 terabyte transfer, and upon running a python > script to verify the integrity of the transfer, we discovered a small > number of files that were 0 length, that shouldn't have been, all in the > same user's

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

2004-12-08 Thread John Van Essen
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Grant Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With a non root user, ssh will authenticate them, but then the rsync > process dies. ... > My config file looks like: > > uid = nobody > gid = nobody > use chroot = no > max connections = 5 > syslog facility = local5

Re: outcome of big rsync. Puzzling

2004-12-20 Thread John Van Essen
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > source vs destination in bytes > - > a) 20480 vs  34922496 > b) 28672 vs    24576 > c) 61718528 vs 61714432 > d) 157790208 vs 157786112 > > each directory consists of subdirectories of medical images in dicom format. > Most inte

Re: preserving symlinks

2004-12-28 Thread John Van Essen
to make them relative. Suggestion to Wayne - this security functionality could be described in its own "Security Issues" or "Daemon vs. non-daemon operation" section on the manpage rather than buried within an option description. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnu

Re: trouble with chmod on certain symlinks

2005-01-02 Thread John Van Essen
Wayne, > diff -u -r1.1.1.6 rsync.c > --- rsync.c 3 Jan 2004 11:22:00 - 1.1.1.6 > +++ rsync.c 21 Dec 2004 12:04:56 - > @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ > change to groups that the user is a member of */ > change_gid = is_in_group(file->gid); >

Using rsync daemon over ssh (was How to use rsync)

2005-01-06 Thread John Van Essen
ectory of the login user and define paths for the above files that are writable by that user. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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: connection unexpectedly closed...

2005-01-13 Thread John Van Essen
ess via ssh? Some configs disable that. Lastly - what version of rsync are you using (always important to know). -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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: rsyncd.conf: "timeout=" crazyness

2005-01-13 Thread John Van Essen
receiver is still alive and the sender should reset its timeout timer. I run into this problem quite often when trying to sync large archives with sparse updates to a very busy, disk I/O intensive server (exactly the conditions you described). -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAI

Re: Rsync Minimalist: --include only does "add_exclude"

2005-01-19 Thread John Van Essen
sing a root directory for a target can be very dangerous if you later add --delete and don't get things quite right. I strongly suggest always using --dry-run (or -n) to test things out. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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: Rsync cross-compilation problem

2005-01-19 Thread John Van Essen
g.log for long long to see why the test for it failed. Does your cross compiler really not have it? -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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: Specifying No Recursion Explicitly

2005-01-22 Thread John Van Essen
the same name in the working directory, append a " .": rsync -tv rsync.dsbl.org::dsbl/rbldns-fresh-list.dsbl.org . Hope that helps. Worked for me. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/m

Re: rsync compilation

2005-01-23 Thread John Van Essen
t seems to be the case here. Try this. In config.h, replace: /* #undef HAVE_LONGLONG */ with #define HAVE_LONGLONG 1 and try compiling again. If your cross-compiler doesn't have this feature and you get compilation errors and you can't fix them, then put them in a reply here and we&#x

Re: Rsync cross-compilation problem

2005-01-23 Thread John Van Essen
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:54:20AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: >> (Note to Wayne - isn't it dangerous to assume that off_t is 64 bits? > > Yeah, it probably is -- that code was always a kluge that doe

Re: Potential new option: --delete-during

2005-01-24 Thread John Van Essen
vior (when it's not a security fix) can be upsetting to those who depend upon it. But if nobody on this list sees any problem with that, then go for it. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/lis

Re: rsync clobbering links?

2005-01-27 Thread John Van Essen
ting to a directory, it will be treated as matching a directory from the sender. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, re

Re: BIG delete list makes for BIGGER RAM requirements

2005-01-31 Thread John Van Essen
e your out-of-memory problem. Use with --dry-run, first, to see how things go. -- John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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: help troubleshooting inconsistencies in back up sizes

2005-02-03 Thread John Van Essen
ne.) If the machines use different timezones, put TZ=GMT before the find: TZ=GMT find /mailhome -ls | sort +10 >/tmp/serverN.txt so all the timestamps will be the same. Then use rsync to gather them on one machine and do diffs between them. -- John Van Essen Univ of Minn. Alum

Re: When to expect 2.6.4?

2005-02-07 Thread John Van Essen
live? It requires the generator to occasionally send a NOP to the sender so that the sender resets its timeout timer. There's a bugzilla item on this: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1889 I think this should be enabled by default, with a --no-keep-alive option to disable it if s

Re: rsyncd / firewall

2005-02-15 Thread John Van Essen
namic one. Just a guess... The first rsync to delete the directory is successful because since it does no file transfers, no compression is needed. -- John Van Essen Univ of Minn. Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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: rsyncd / firewall

2005-02-15 Thread John Van Essen
/archive/trouble I believe). What does the backtrace output from gdb show? I'm mystified why this error does not happen on your other rsync that transfers an empty directory... What does an strace for that show that is different from this one, I wonder? -- John Van Essen Univ of

Re: What's wrong with my exclude rules?

2005-02-23 Thread John Van Essen
y is the default initial rule. I've never seen anyone using this... Have you tried the rsync without it? The "/" could be interpreted in two ways - as the explicit top-level root directory, or as a trailing slash on a null directory, which rsync might treat the same as a "

Re: What's wrong with my exclude rules?

2005-02-23 Thread John Van Essen
*). That way, there's no wildcard expansion because no filenames will match that combined pattern. Maybe all man page examples should use the '=' format? -- John Van Essen Univ of Minn. Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 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: Fwd: Re: rsync + ssh -o -p -g -l

2005-03-05 Thread John Van Essen
hem to see what's going on. > How can see with rsync more details of the transfers , > > y try to use rsync -avvz but is the = rsync -avz, i > want see more details, how can i do? They shouldn't be the same... Using more v's is the right thing to do.

Re: rsync crashing under centos 4

2005-03-11 Thread John Van Essen
these supposed to be resolved when the program is initially loaded at run-time? This has not been a problem in the past, AFAIK. Perhaps some newer library is trying to be too clever for its own good. As a workaround, maybe rsync could do a call to getpwuid() and getgrgid() before doing the ch

Re: CLUE:Fairly mysterious rsync problem.

2005-03-14 Thread John Van Essen
l fails, then please include: - Current listing of rsyncd.conf (you're obviously no longer using /tmp if you've been futzing with its permissions...) - output of ls -la for the receiving directory -- John Van Essen Univ of Minn. Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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