Re: Handling spaces in filenames

to the names with spaces to give the illusion that it understands. -Original Message- From: rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org [mailto:rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Larry Alkoff Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:04 PM To: Rsync Subject: Handling spaces in filenames Man rsync says

Re: Handling spaces in filenames

Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: On 11.08.2009 21:04, Larry Alkoff wrote: Man rsync says that If you need to transfer a filename that contains whitespace, you'll need to either escape the whitespace in a way that the remote shell will understand, or use wildcards in place

Handling spaces in filenames

Man rsync says that If you need to transfer a filename that contains whitespace, you'll need to either escape the whitespace in a way that the remote shell will understand, or use wildcards in place of the spaces.. I am regularly doing backups with rsync and notice that files names

errors in rsync

like: cat: faillog: Input/output error What can I do to find out if the disk is bad or repair it? Are these errors serious enough to re-install? Larry Alkoff The entries in /var/log/rback.errors: r...@kinda log # cat rback.errors rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23

Can files be changed to hard links?

change the rsync line to: rsync uaHv --delete source/ target will the files copied using the original line be deleted and replaced with hard links? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Linux -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

Why does this rsync line not work?

someone set me straight? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Linux -- 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: Why does rsync -an show files that are the same?

Wayne Davison wrote: On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:05:09PM -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote: In testing this with two subdirectories with man files and sub-sub directories, rsync _seems_ to be showing all files instead of only the few that have recently changed. I'd imagine that the reason

Why does rsync -an show files that are the same?

in the rsync output. This is very confusing as I only want to see the few files that _would_ be transferred. Am I doing something dumb? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

Re: How to --exclude /usr/ but --include /usr/local/ ?

Wayne Davison wrote: On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:28:08PM -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote: In looking at man rsync, it does not appear to both --exclude /usr/ and --include /usr/local/ Correct, you can't exclude /usr and still get to /usr/local. What you want to do is to include /usr/local

How to --exclude /usr/ but --include /usr/local/ ?

that excluded section of the hierarchy. I start rsync at / and the files I wish to save are in /usr/local plus /home and some other directories. Is there a work-around to do this? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux -- To unsubscribe or change options: https

Usage question for source at /

need a trailing / for the source path. Is the line below correct? rsync -uacHv --exclude=lost+found mnt proc public sys tmp // /mnt/backup (Above single line split into two by the Thunderbird) Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux -- To unsubscribe

--delete reports all files deleted

and then copied? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Slackware Linux -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html