Re: IO error encountered, skipping file deletion - WTF?

2011-06-02 Thread travis+ml-rsync
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:04:25PM -0700, travis+ml-rs...@subspacefield.org wrote: > Could a dangling symlink cause this problem? To answer my own question, yes, a dangling symlink on the source was the cause of the problem, and I had --copy-unsafe-symlinks is on. Thanks for the help people, tha

Re: IO error encountered, skipping file deletion - WTF?

2011-05-29 Thread travis+ml-rsync
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:44:45AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2011, travis+ml-rs...@subspacefield.org wrote: > > Anyone know what this is supposed to mean? > > > > 366305 files to consider > > IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion > > > > I keep getting this, and so it r

IO error encountered, skipping file deletion - WTF?

2011-04-05 Thread travis+ml-rsync
Anyone know what this is supposed to mean? 366305 files to consider IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion I keep getting this, and so it refuses to delete any files from a mirror. But what is the supposed I/O error? Can we have it give us some kind of clue? dmesg doesn't show any clue

Re: maybe a Unicode problem? was Re: two bugs in rsync 3.0.6 - ampersands in filenames, double quoting required

2011-03-11 Thread travis+ml-rsync
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:00:57PM -0800, travis+ml-rs...@subspacefield.org wrote: > This time it failed when trying to delete a file containing the word > G\#303\#266del > > I wonder if there's some issues with Unicode... Or possibly not. This time, the last line before the I/O error was a fi

maybe a Unicode problem? was Re: two bugs in rsync 3.0.6 - ampersands in filenames, double quoting required

2011-03-11 Thread travis+ml-rsync
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 06:41:26PM -0800, travis+ml-rs...@subspacefield.org wrote: > deleting path/to/(Something) Word Word Anotherword--Word Word.pdf > IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion > > I think either the -- is causing it to fail, or more likely, the next > filename, which it di

two bugs in rsync 3.0.6 - ampersands in filenames, double quoting required

2011-03-11 Thread travis+ml-rsync
1) deleting path/to/(Something) Word Word Anotherword--Word Word.pdf IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion I think either the -- is causing it to fail, or more likely, the next filename, which it didn't bother to print out, which has an ampersand in the name, causes it to fail. I am usi

Re: does rsync work in lockstep? parallel could improve high latency performance

2010-08-19 Thread travis+ml-rsync
Oh, and if it buffers requests sent to its STDIN, that's fine. To actually complete requests in parallel, you'd need a multithread or multiprocess app, and that's complicated. The proper term for what I'm suggesting is probably "pipelining". -- Travis is an organic computer peripheral. My emails

does rsync work in lockstep? parallel could improve high latency performance

2010-08-19 Thread travis+ml-rsync
Just curious if the protocol sends a request and waits for a response, or whether it can multiplex multiple requests on a single connection. This could improve performance over high latency links, if a lot of time is spent waiting for the response (i.e. when the hashes match). -- Travis is an orga

Re: feature request: "remote user is root, make remote owner is foo"

2010-08-11 Thread travis+ml-rsync
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:32:42PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: [Set u+s on directories, don't worry about owners] It seems to work relatively well. I get an error about not being able to chgrp the files owned by other users, and, in my case, the group ends up wrong because it's not supposed to be

Re: feature request: "remote user is root, make remote owner is foo"

2010-08-11 Thread travis+ml-rsync
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > As a matter of principle, SOP, we don't like to ssh/rsync as root > and generally don't allow root ssh/rsync into a box. Better/safer > to move the security stuff to a lower powered user if you can. I'm familiar with the argument. L

feature request: "remote user is root, make remote owner is foo"

2010-08-11 Thread travis+ml-rsync
I often push files from my user account over SSH to my web server, and want them owned by www-user, which may not have a login shell, should never accept remote logins, and who may not have a ~/.ssh directory (and if it did, it would be under the wwwroot, ack!). Currently I push as root and then d

HDB, a hard drive backup program

2010-08-11 Thread travis+ml-rsync
Hey all, I'm writing a tool: http://www.subspacefield.org/security/hdb/ It is very similar in some ways to rsync, except it's meant for backing up locally to removable HDDs, and it keeps metadata around when the HDD is removed. I figured I'd ping people here to see if they are interested in part