Re: using rsync to keep squeeze amd64 image freshened.

2010-12-16 Thread Mac User FR
If you only want a file (or directory) just complete the link that Ed gave you: > cdimage.debian.org::cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/[name of the > file/directory] /YOUR_DOWNLOAD_DIR/ Le 17 déc. 2010 à 07:42, shirish शिरीष a écrit : > In-line :- > > 2010/12/17 : > > > >> None of 4 Tai

Re: hello,this question,Request help

2010-11-15 Thread Mac User FR
Hi, This error could probably come from the drop of an unstable network connection. Check my recent post about it: http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg26280.html In my case, the solution was to use rsync over a ssh tunnel. The ssh tunnel is more robust about network problems t

Re: rsync: link_stat "." (in sprengel) failed: Permission denied (13)

2010-09-30 Thread Mac User FR
Le 30 sept. 10 à 11:39, andreas.moro...@sb-brixen.it a écrit : Verify the user doing the transfer have write access on the sprengel module. Hello, do you mean the user on the client ( while testing it is root ) on the server where I started rsync as daemon as root or does it change group a

Re: rsync as a deliberately slow copy?

2010-09-30 Thread Mac User FR
Le 29 sept. 10 à 22:35, Henri Shustak a écrit : I'm looking for a way to deliberately copy a large directory tree of files somewhat slowly, rather than as fast as the hardware will allow. Just do it to localhost - that way it's still a network connection, and you can use "--bwlimit". Also,

Re: "writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092 bytes to socket"

2010-09-26 Thread Mac User FR
Hi, If you are able to rsync over ssh, this connection may be more robust than plain rsync protocol. See http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg26280.html Best regards, Vitorio -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change

Re: Abysmal sparse file performance!

2010-09-21 Thread Mac User FR
Hi, I'm not an rsync expert, other people will confirm or infirm what I'm saying, but I think your problem is that you are using rsync in "stand- alone" mode to copy from and to the same computer. Although that works, in this way rsync won't use it's delta algorithm and so, won't have grea

Re: Intermittent rsync Issues

2010-09-16 Thread Mac User FR
Paul Slootman a écrit : On Thu 16 Sep 2010, Mac User FR wrote: I read somewhere that the ssh connection was stronger than rsync one in unstable networks. And effectively, if I run rsync via ssh ( -e option), the transfer happen without errors, on the same computer using the same networking setup

Re: Intermittent rsync Issues

2010-09-16 Thread Mac User FR
Hi! Interesting subject. Since a week now I'm trying to solve the same problem on a very precise configuration. In my company we have some wired computers and some wireless ones. All of them under Windows XP SP3 with all security updates. They are backed up in a FreeNAS box under FreeNAS

Re: How to let rsync detect file RENAMEs

2010-05-20 Thread Mac User FR
Hi, rsync only synchronizes one way. If you mean that when you change the file in location A then you run rsync A to B and when you change the file in B side, you run a different command rsync B to A, it's OK. If you want rsync to automatically see which side changed, rsync doesn't do tha

Re: osx 10.6 strange rsync errors

2010-04-06 Thread Mac User FR
It's the Easter miracle! :P Sorry about joking in a serious list, hope you won't get angry. Although I don't have suggestions about the problem, I'm following the thread because I'm potentially concerned about rsync on Mac bugs. Cheers! Vitorio Le 6 avr. 10 à 00:09, Robert DuToit a écrit

Re: Rsync behaviour on harddisc crash

2010-03-18 Thread Mac User FR
Oh, sorry, I didn't get that the filesystem to check was the remote one. Now I get why the solution is so complex. Le 18 mars 2010 à 18:30, Paul Slootman a écrit : > On Thu 18 Mar 2010, Mac User FR wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be better to use conditional expressions fro

Re: Rsync behaviour on harddisc crash

2010-03-18 Thread Mac User FR
Wouldn't it be better to use conditional expressions from sh with a smaller footprint than rsync --list to check if the directory exists? I think on something like: -d file True if file exists and is a directory. (source: man sh) Cheers, Vitorio Le 18 mars 10 à 17:30, Linux Expert

Re: invalid uid os x

2010-01-23 Thread Mac User FR
I don't have any help for the solution of your uid problem, but try upgrading to a recent rsync version. 1) Download and Install XCode if not already done 2) Download sources from rsync server 3) unzip 4) open a Terminal on the rsync sources folder 5) run "./configure && make" 6) try using the fr

Re: does it make sense to run rsync over ftp (curlftpfs)?

2009-11-09 Thread Mac User FR
Hello, Like on any other mounting system, if you run rsync over a mounted ftp volume, it won't be able to save you a lot of bandwidth with the delta algorithm as it's not running on both sides of the link. In another hand, if bandwidth is not your problem, with this method rsync should (t

Re: build on osx 10.6

2009-10-25 Thread Mac User FR
I don't know, I was just theoretically guessing. I don't have a computer on 10.6 so I'm just fine with rsync :) Le 25 oct. 09 à 18:36, Robert DuToit a écrit : Hi Vitorio, Yes -I kind of figured default was that now. What would be the way to get i386 back: would ./configure -arch i386 -a

Re: build on osx 10.6

2009-10-25 Thread Mac User FR
For me this is a problem of gcc config on X.6. It's targetting x64 by default instead of x86. Cheers, Vitorio Le 25 oct. 09 à 18:19, Robert DuToit a écrit : Hi All, I've been off list for a while and just got around to building rsync 3.0.6 on Mac OSX 10.6 intel core 2 duo machine. It runs

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2009-10-04 Thread Mac User FR
Yes, look at the post-xfer exec option of man rsyncd. Regards Le 4 oct. 09 à 00:14, sdcsdc sdcsdc a écrit : Hi, I want to transport a bash file with ipfw rules when the file is updated from PHP program between Ubuntu server and FreeBSD server via SSH. The problem is that then the bash

Re: I don't get --link-dest, at all

2009-08-11 Thread Mac User FR
I think your problem is with reading the correct size of folders as there have hard links. To do this with du command, try: du -sh /home/backup/* As far as I know, du command will only report the "real" disk size if the 2 hard links are in the du "scoop". Otherwise, running 2 times du on th

Re: Files with / in their name....

2009-07-23 Thread Mac User FR
If the sender OS is OS X, I would guess you are using an rsync patch that is not fully compliant with the colon to slash conversion. The patch I did to let rsync copy the resource forks on OS X prior to Tiger had this problem, that is corrected on the last version. Completing what Greg wrote:

Re: Error messages 3.0.6pre1

2009-07-21 Thread Mac User FR
This is a malloc (memory allocation) error. It shows that a non-aligned pointer (pointer that doesn't start on an address multiple of 4 in a 32-bit machine) is being freed. As pointers must always be aligned, this indicates an error and the function free() doesn't know how to deal with it. B

Re: WARNING: . . . .failed verification -- update discarded (will try again).

2009-06-04 Thread Mac User FR
Here is the mail from henri. Best regards, Vitorio Début du message réexpédié : De : henri Date : 4 juin 2009 00:30:32 HAEC À : Mac User FR Objet : Rép : WARNING: . . . .failed verification -- update discarded (will try again). I was going to write a daemon to manage suspend and resume

Re: WARNING: . . . .failed verification -- update discarded (will try again).

2009-06-04 Thread Mac User FR
Well, when you backup a running vm disk image 3 cases may happen: 1) From the start of the copy until the end of the copy (or syncing, doesn't matter) the guest OS did not write anything on disk -> copy will be OK. 2) The guest OS write something to disk but luckily the copy process got all

Re: WARNING: . . . .failed verification -- update discarded (will try again).

2009-06-03 Thread Mac User FR
You can't copy the disk image of a vm while the guest OS is running. Best regards, Vitorio Le 3 juin 09 à 18:58, JW a écrit : A nightly scripted rsync backup job is giving me this error WARNING: vm/escDebLenny14G-flat.vmdk failed verification -- update discarded (will try again). I've se

Re: Rsync spawning a child process when pulling files ?

2009-06-01 Thread Mac User FR
I'm not sure (maybe someone else can confirm/infirm?) but I think when there is a server it is "normal" that there is one process to handle connexions and one process for each transfer. Think about many clients connecting to your server. One process will dialog with all clients (from differen

Re: Does rsync detect file corruption?

2009-05-24 Thread Mac User FR
A simple way to prevent this is to store the backup with a rotating system and hard-linking files. You can do it with rsync --link-dest=DIR option and a post-exec script that moves the backup dir to something like backup-200905241335 In this way if the file got corrupted it won't be hard-link

Re: 2.6.9 and 3.0.5 sync error

2009-05-20 Thread Mac User FR
This seems for me an autorisation problem "rsync: push_dir#1 "/" (in maps) failed: Permission denied (13)" Verify that you have enough privileges to read the data you are trying to. Le 20 mai 09 à 13:01, Daniel.Li a écrit : Dear List, I'm using rsync to sync my data, see below command. And

Re: rsync+cygwin 1.5<->1.7 performance

2009-05-20 Thread Mac User FR
For me, cygwin 1.7 make rsync usable on Windows. Although hacking with the UTF-8 dll, cygwin 1.5 limited paths (or file names) to 256 characters. This limitation was too much for me since I use it to backup user data that can be longer than this. I've read on cygwin list about performance i

Re: Possibility to porting Rsync to NT and other platforms

2009-05-19 Thread Mac User FR
ative functions of respective OS (which I will have to use to decorate the software - outside the domain of Rsync) e.g. I will use windows forms, not if I compile java to binary, ill lose windows forms thing On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Mac User FR wrote: Did you try compiling your java co

Re: Possibility to porting Rsync to NT and other platforms

2009-05-19 Thread Mac User FR
it makes system calls? I have ported rsync to java (I used same rolling algorithm but used other hashing) but it isn't fast enough, seems I have to make a native binary version. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Mac User FR wrote: I'm not on the code of rsync, but it is heavily c

rsync 10.3 xattr_support v0.7

2009-02-01 Thread Mac User FR
Hi folks, I had some time today so I compiled the modification allowing names with slashes on the pre-tiger resource fork support patch. This is the only change, so who already changed the patch by itself doesn't need to update to this version. Thanks to Tim for showing us this bug. Best

Re: Rsync with OS X 10.3

2009-01-25 Thread Mac User FR
Le 25 janv. 09 à 00:53, Jason a écrit : I've compiled with the ASCII values and everything works as expected. Cool. I'm still getting the other error so I'm not sure what has happened. I'll regenerate the disk image for backupbouncer as maybe the file has become corrupt. Which other e

Re: Rsync with OS X 10.3

2009-01-24 Thread Mac User FR
Le 24 janv. 09 à 21:41, Jason a écrit : I've done some digging around and using the condition if(unicharName[index]==0x003B) /* == ':' */ we never meet this case. I tried changing the unicharName[index]==':' and the subsequent slash unicharName. After rsync is compiled I am able to han

Re: Rsync with OS X 10.3

2009-01-24 Thread Mac User FR
Le 24 janv. 09 à 08:46, Jason a écrit : Hi Again, I may have spoke too soon regarding the second :/ patch. Using the first patch (non-unicode version) I am able to deal with the :/ issue. However, I've recompiled using the second fix and I am now getting the error: rsync: get_xattr_nam

Re: snapshots without NFS

2008-11-26 Thread Mac User FR
Mag Gam a écrit : Thanks for the fast response Vitorio. Do you happen to have a simple example? I been trying to look thru google but unsuccessful. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Mac User FR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mag Gam a écrit : Is it possible to implement snapshots

Version 0.6 of 10.3 xattr patch is out!

2008-11-23 Thread Mac User FR
Hi guys, I had a little time and decided to update my patch to be applied on rsync 3.0.4 without hung or reverse patch error. NB: I only corrected patching errors, the xattr patch still exactly the same. I didn't tested if the issue I explained there still the same or not: http://lists.sa

Re: Rsync of LVM Snapshots copies whole file

2008-08-15 Thread Mac User FR
The problem with disk image as databases is that data change a lot into the file. When you run a system on a disk image, thre is not only new data appending to the end of the file, but the entire disk image is changing. Same thing would happen with large Outlook .pst databases. Rsync nor any o

Re: cwrsync & uppercase letters

2008-08-14 Thread Mac User FR
Hi, Le 14 août 08 à 12:36, Mojca Miklavec a écrit : On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Mac User FR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With the patched UTF8 cygwin ( http://www.okisoft.co.jp/esc/utf8-cygwin/ ), it works like a charm for us, with spaces and uppercases. I just had to set a ic

Re: Yet another rsync incremental thread

2008-07-19 Thread Mac User FR
Le 19 juil. 08 à 20:13, Matt McCutchen a écrit : On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 15:45 +0200, Mac User FR wrote: In another hand, don't you think we could add the content of this script (revised, of course) to make rsync a complete incremental backup solution without needing 3rd part software? Is

Re: Yet another rsync incremental thread

2008-07-19 Thread Mac User FR
Thanks Matt!! I'm always amazed of the quick and precise answers you give! Yes, sorry, I meant push (English isn't my native langage and I always swap push and pull). For rsnapshot, OK, I understood now how to connect them. The "post- xfer exec" I was looking for don't exist on the rsync ma

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2008-05-17 Thread Mac User FR
Hello all, I've started a MacOS 10.3 Panther xattr project at the begin of the year. There is already some time that I haven't presented a new version of rsync10.3xattr_support patch. By this mail I would like to present my apologies and officially stop this project for many reasons: - I'

Re: Incremental file updates over a network, NFS?

2008-03-14 Thread Mac User FR
You gave you the answer. I'm not a security specialist, but by my modest knowledge, rsync protocol isn't secure at all as all information can be sniffed by somebody on the network. So the "classic" solution for those who need encryption is to use ssh wrapper. On the links of this page: htt

Re: Incremental file updates over a network, NFS?

2008-03-14 Thread Mac User FR
Rsync works on a client/server system. So it's recommended to install rsync on both machines (your and the server), so you bypass NFS and connect to the server via rsync protocol. That's the way to use the delta incremental algorithm. Le 14 mars 08 à 12:46, Andy Smith a écrit : Hi list,