Re: Beginner help: Excluding directories by pattern

2011-12-24 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
You want --exclude-from=file You can cut-and-paste those path patterns into that file just as they are. Sadly, I'm still getting the files on the destination. Any ideas? 3.0.7 on windows, 3.0.8 on mac. -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist

Re: Beginner help: Excluding directories by pattern

2011-12-24 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
2. Mistaking the fact that the files are in the target because they were already in the target for rsync actually transferring them.  If they were there before you ran rsync they will still be there after unless you use --delete-excluded Whoops! I thought that was the default. Thank you. --

Beginner help: Excluding directories by pattern

2011-12-18 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I apologize in advance for asking a beginner question, but I really could not figure this from the manual page. I want to copy some files with rsync, and not copy others. The stuff that I do not want to copy looks like this: System Volume Information/_restore*/RP* WINDOWS/Prefetch/* Documents

Is it possible to be on the rsync list without getting all the samba bugs?

2011-09-07 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
When I signed up for the rsync mailing list, I was not expecting to get all the samba bugs as well. Is it possible to be on just the rsync mailing list, without being on the bug report list as well? -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or

Help needed getting rsync to copy from windows to mac

2011-08-15 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I'm trying to use rsync to copy files from a Microsoft Windows machine (XP, with cygwin) to a macintosh (10.5.8, PPC). After a lot of playing with options, manual page reading, etc, I have the following command, executed on the windows machine: rsync -A -X -a --delete

Re: rsync is coring

2011-06-10 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
What do you get from --version? $ rsync --version rsync version 3.0.7 protocol version 30 Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, 32-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs,

Re: thank you wayne, andrew, paul and everyone else

2011-04-29 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
Of course, we wouldn't NEED them so much  if we had better distributed file systems, I'm actually looking at a potential want/need for Rumor and family. Anyone want to work with me on getting them up and running on modern systems? http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/rumor98/replication.html -- Please

Re:

2011-02-27 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I, for one, welcome our new secure supervisor overlords Secure supervisor, in a computer context. That would be nice, right? On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Carlos Mennens carlos.menn...@gmail.com wrote: I quit! On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:03 PM, the mett thm...@gmail.com wrote: I AM NOW YOUR

Backing up from windows to macintosh

2011-01-09 Thread Michael_google gmail_Gersten
I want to backup from a windows machine to a Macintosh. All of the guides that I've seen describe the other direction. Worse, they all seem slightly different, or inconsistent. The first thing that I'd want to do should be simple: an rsync -az --delete of the entire drive, to back up all of the