rsync is a tool to efficiently copy directory hierarchies, locally or remotely, with powerful filters to decide what gets copied.
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rsync list of files in sub-directories to remote server and delete extraneous
I haven't been able to find the answer to this one. I have tried all kinds of combinations of --include, --exclude, -r, --delete-excluded, and source directory.
This is what I'm trying to accomplish:
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Rsync — Itemized List of Changes
I've learned that with the -i option, I can get rsync to list all the changes it makes. I've been using it along with the -n or --dry-run options so that I can always learn about all expected changes ...
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Rsync adding a “?” at the beginning of directories
I currently have many of these commands running in a .sh file that looks like this:
rsync -avz -e ssh --rsh='ssh -p1337' --bwlimit=10000 root@DestinationIP:/home/backup /home/localbackup
rsync -avz ...
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Can't share an ssh connection with rsync
In my .ssh/config file I have the following:
Host xxx
User yyy
HostName zzzz
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/%r@%h:%p
This works great for multiplexing my ssh connections (i.e. login once, ...
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light weight disk based backup solution
Currently I am using Dirvish to backup a handful remote machines, both Linux and Windows to local disks. But Dirvish hasn't seen any updates for many years and it has a couple of small annoyances ...
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How to merge multiple WebDAV accounts for backup?
I use davfs, aufs, rsync:
sudo mount -t davfs -o uid=wd,gid=wd,dir_mode=777,rw https://wd1.wd.wd/ /mnt/webdav1
sudo mount -t davfs -o uid=wd,gid=wd,dir_mode=777,rw https://wd1.wd.wd/ /mnt/webdav2
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Rsync --bwlimit not working
I am currently using rsync to transfert large file from a host to another.
I would like to limit the debit for this transfert. After reading the man page I found the option --bwlimit which is ...
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Rsync daemon intrepreting parameters as command in rsync.conf
I meshed up with my rsync on linux. When I am restating it, its showing me following error:
sudo /etc/init.d/rsync restart
/etc/rsyncd.conf: line 13: [ftp]: command not found
/etc/rsyncd.conf: line ...
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BackupPC can't finish backup
I'm trying to backup /etc/ directory on CentOS 5.2 using BackupPC.
It takes several hours and then aborted by signal ALRM.
There is a partial backup created with all data from /etc
But BackupPC thinks ...
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Cannot get rsync to keep source file ownership, tried many tricks
I'm trying to rsync some directories from a webserver running RHEL5 to a system running Xubuntu. I have rsync, ssh, and keys setup for the machines. I've tried everything so that when i backup from ...
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Use rsync with closed files only
I am interested in using rsync with the --remove-source-files option. I am planning on pointing it to a directory, with a command like:
rsync -avm --remove-source-files --include='*.dat' -f 'hide,! ...
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Running rsync as a daemon for a local transfer
My coworker is trying to talk me into running rsync as a daemon on my EM server. I'm currently using rsync to copy a NFS share on my storage cluster to USB external drives so the data can be reviewed ...
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ssh: “Error reading response length from authentication socket”
I have a Makefile with some ssh and rsync commands. All of them are executed correctly, but give the following error message:
Error reading response length from authentication socket.
I don't like ...
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Rsync seems to back up files that haven't been opened or changed
I have started using rsync to back some data on my mac to an external HD. It works really well, but I have noticed something odd. Every time I run the command, I get a list of files that haven't been ...
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rsync a mac on linux box, --delete not working
I have a mac Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0. One of its folders is called source. I want to back it up on a remote linux folder called destination.
My problem: whatever I try, I cannot make the rsync ...
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Is there any rsync parameter for show at the end the changes made?
I have a script that sync (mirror mode) four folders between two disks. While it is running it shows the directory where it is in this very moment, and at the end it shows bytes sent, speed, etc.
I'm ...
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Open alternative to crashplan friends
Is there a native linux alternative to "crashplan friends" http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/getting_started/back_up_to_a_friend? The concept is that files are syncronized (backuped) to remote ...
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rdiff-backup changes permissions of source directory
I recently found rdiff-backup which seems to be very useful incremental alternative to rsync.
But there's an issue, while trying to use the rdiff-backup to make a mirror of a folder in other one, it ...
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Logging only transferred files with rsync
I've created a backup script with rsync and I have it running every 10 minutes. I have it logging using --progress but to make reading the log easier I only want to include files that are transferred. ...
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rsync giving “Directory has vanished” when there are multiple (existing) source directories
This is happening to me:
$ rsync -av ./foo ./bar $DEST
sending incremental file list
directory has vanished: "/path/to/foo"
foo exists and is regular a regular dir, and rsync -av ./foo $DEST works, ...
