Re: rsync problem

2009-07-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
Just a correction to my example here: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 07:25:48AM -0700, Daniel Burrows was heard to say: > $ mkdir foo > $ echo > --test > $ rsync --test foo > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.cc(1440) > [client=3.0.6] > $ rsync -- test foo Ob

Re: rsync problem [thanks to all]

2009-07-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: Two points: 1. Always do it the "right way", even though you *assume* you know the wrong way "should" work, and 2. parsers treat extraneous spaces in all sorts of nasty and unexpected ways. I'm finding that out. I guarantee the lesson will be reta

Re: rsync problem

2009-07-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:40:00AM -0700, Robert Holtzman was heard to say: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Mike Bird wrote: > > >On Mon July 27 2009 22:59:38 Robert Holtzman wrote: > >> > >>Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive using a > >>script: > >> > >>rsync -vaHz --exclude

Re: rsync problem

2009-07-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-28 09:35 +0200, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.iso' Look *very* *carefully* at this line. --exclude '/media' / /media/disk/laptop and see ho

Re: rsync problem

2009-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-28 02:40, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Mike Bird wrote: On Mon July 27 2009 22:59:38 Robert Holtzman wrote: Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive using a script: rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.iso' --exclude '/

Re: rsync problem

2009-07-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-07-28 09:35 +0200, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 2009-07-28 00:59, Robert Holtzman wrote: >>> Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive >>> using a script: >>> >>> rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.

Re: rsync problem

2009-07-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Mike Bird wrote: On Mon July 27 2009 22:59:38 Robert Holtzman wrote: Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive using a script: rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.iso' --exclude '/media' / /media/disk/laptop Does the space

Re: rsync problem

2009-07-28 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-28 00:59, Robert Holtzman wrote: Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive using a script: rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.iso' Look *very* *carefully* at this line. --exclude '/media' /

Re: rsync problem

2009-07-27 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon July 27 2009 22:59:38 Robert Holtzman wrote: > Tried to post this to the rsync list but the subscribe connection failed > so I'll try here. > > Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive using a > script: > > rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.i

Re: rsync problem

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-28 00:59, Robert Holtzman wrote: Tried to post this to the rsync list but the subscribe connection failed so I'll try here. Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive using a script: rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.iso' Look *ve

rsync problem

2009-07-27 Thread Robert Holtzman
Tried to post this to the rsync list but the subscribe connection failed so I'll try here. Just installed rsync 3.0.3-2 and tried to backup to a usb drive using a script: rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.iso' --exclude '/media' / /media/disk/laptop This is the

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-13 Thread Ric Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:31:47PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ric Otte wrote: > > One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or > > rsync (and also tar, although I didn't pay as much attention), is that > > according to top, Xfree86 is often using up to 78-99% of the cpu, a

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Ric Otte wrote: > One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or > rsync (and also tar, although I didn't pay as much attention), is that > according to top, Xfree86 is often using up to 78-99% of the cpu, and > things are very sluggish for a few seconds after the copying is

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Richard Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:13:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > What if you pipe stdout to a text file? > Ron, I reformatted the drive, and began rsync with the errors piped to a file (rsync -av --exclude-from=.rsync.all /home/ric /bkup/ 2>xxx.rsync) Things went fine for a long time, but eventually

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 08:49 -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:07:41AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Does tar succeed as well? > > > Yes, I believe so. I just copied several directories using tar, and > fsck says everything is fine. > > One thing I notice is that while copying t

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Ric Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:07:41AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Does tar succeed as well? > Yes, I believe so. I just copied several directories using tar, and fsck says everything is fine. One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or rsync (and also tar, although I didn

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 21:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a SATA hard disk in my machine, and recently installed a 200gb Seagate > IDE hard drive in it to use as backup. I want to use rsync to backup my home > directory to this machine. I used mkfs.ext3 to format the drive as ext3, and

ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-11 Thread otte
I have a SATA hard disk in my machine, and recently installed a 200gb Seagate IDE hard drive in it to use as backup. I want to use rsync to backup my home directory to this machine. I used mkfs.ext3 to format the drive as ext3, and mounted the drive (mount -text3 /dev/hdc /bkup). I then made a d

sarge usb hard drive rsync problem

2005-08-15 Thread Rodney Richison
While attempting to rsync a backup I get the below error on sarge after it's run for awhile.. I guess eventually I could get it all copied. :( Notice when I try to umount afterwards, the device is busy. I'm using reiserfs on both drives. * sync: writefd_unbuffered failed t

Re: rsync problem

2003-09-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:55:50 +0200 francois mounier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but when I run > rsync 192.168.1.2::test/ /var/www > > it returns this error > @ERROR: invalid gid nobody > rsync: connection inexpectedly closed (39 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data str

Re: rsync problem

2003-09-04 Thread francois mounier
--- > francois mounier wrote: > > >it returns this error > >@ERROR: invalid gid nobody > >rsync: connection inexpectedly closed (39 bytes read so far) > >rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at > >io.c(150) > > > I don't know if Debian is different, but rsync

Re: rsync problem

2003-09-04 Thread Gerhard Venter
francois mounier wrote: it returns this error @ERROR: invalid gid nobody rsync: connection inexpectedly closed (39 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150) I don't know if Debian is different, but rsync can work with its own users and passwords (i

rsync problem

2003-09-04 Thread francois mounier
Hi I am using Debian woody 3.0_r1 on hppa and rsync 2.5.6 I have several web servers and I d like to use rsync to keep my web content up-to-date on each server. One of the server runs rsync as a daemon the other are rsync clients... So on all I have installed rsync package on all >From my clien

Re: rsync problem

2003-06-13 Thread Andy Firman
> I have a problem using rsync which seems to give an error when copying files. > Although it appears consistent for a given file, it is not consistent between > files. > > If I issue this command > > rsync rabbit.home::alan/My\ Documents/Mail/Agent\ News\ Data/GROUPS.IDX . > > Some files for

rsync problem

2003-06-08 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a problem using rsync which seems to give an error when copying files. Although it appears consistent for a given file, it is not consistent between files. If I issue this command rsync rabbit.home::alan/My\ Documents/Mail/Agent\ News\ Dat

rsync - Problem

2001-05-17 Thread The DeviceRider
Hallo !   Ich habe mir die Pseudo-image-Dateien heruntergeladen und möchte nun den rsync - Befehl ausführen. Jedoch gebe ich nicht den richtigen CD-Image rsync - Server an. Ich kann auch nicht das debian-CD - Verzeichnis auf irgend welchen mirror-Seiten finden. Ich bitte um Hilfe.   Danke

rsync problem

1999-05-10 Thread trapstep
Hi! I've got a problem with rsync. my wish: i want to get all binary-i386 packages of the potato distribution from ftp.de.debian.org. so i set up an includes file as follows: - **/ - **/* + dists/potato/ + dists/potato/* + dists/potato/*/ + dists/potato/*/* + dists/potato/*/binary-i386/ + dists/pot