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Rsync as another user (www-data)
I usually use a graphical SSH client to sync a local and remote directory. And I have to set the ownership of all the files from root to www-data.
Can I do the same with Rsync, only that I do it as ...
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How to find out whether rsync transferred anything (i.e. files where updated)?
Having a script I would like to know whether a call of rsync transferred anything - in particular whether any files were updated.
The reason is, that I am synchronizing a CVS repository and would ...
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how to find bandwidth bottleneck between two remote server?
I want to copy a large file from one remote server to another, but it's slowly (about 10 kb/s). I have tried to download some file from http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html in both server and ...
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Rsync statistics number of files
I'm using rsync with -vrlHh --delete --stats --force options to mirror two directories.
The first directory is the source and it's my external hd, the destination directory is empty because I've just ...
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How to gzip a directory, transfer via scp, and decompress in one command?
I frequently transfer large directories over scp and it would be sweet if I could somehow compress the directory, send it, and decompress it all in one.
Is something like this possible?
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What does `>f..tp…` when using rsync?
When using rsync, it prints
>f..tp...... /foo/bar
What does the >f..tp...... mean?
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How to copy only certain files and subdirectories
Hi let's say I have a directory like this:
/
my_work
/dir1
keepdir1.ddd
keepdir2.ddd
file.cfg
(lots ...
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Why does rsync copy files after copying files manually?
I copied many files in many folders (~54GB) from an ext4 location to another with cp ~/1 ~/2 -d -r -v -i in bash. I then wanted to check that all files were copied correctly, so I ran rsync --delete ...
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rsync: copy tree including only one file on each level
I want to copy all files "pom.xml" from a big tree to a new tree: On each level of the src tree I have this file. I want to get the same tree structure, but ignore empty directories.
sounds like a ...
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How many Grsync installations required for one way synchronization?
I plan to synchronize my files one-way only from a directory at my local 64-bit Window 7 PC to a remote RedHat Linux server via internet. I do not have root permission at the remote shared server so I ...
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Backup client for Windows: open source, rsync and VSS
I'm looking for a sync/backup client for Windows with:
Open source license (BSD/GPL)
rsync deltas to a remote rsync server
VSS support
Command line interface is preferred to a GUI.
The less of ...
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How do I specify a large list of files I need to sync to rsync?
I have a list of files and destinations that I need to sync with rsync but I do not want to run rsync several times for that (connection time is big due to ssh usage in my case).
Example:
~/aaa ...
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Rsync only updated files
I did an rsync from remote to local. Now I want to update the changed or newer files. How can I achieve it with rsync?
rsync -avz --progress -u -e ssh ServerName:FolderPath/FolderName ...
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is there equivalent of rsync in MS powershell?
Rsync is very useful, I don't have to copy all files in a directory. It updates only the newer files.
I use it with cygwin but I think there are some inconsistencies, which are not the main focus of ...
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Can rsync preserve hard link across file systems?
I'd like to back up my data preserving hard link to a network drive connected through cifs.
Is it possible?
My system is Linux (EXT4) and I have two network drives: one is also Linux (EXT4) and the ...
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rsync --remove-source-files deletes source files one by one or after rsync completes?
I have an rsync command in an application that copies the contents of a folder to another machine. I have the option --remove-source-files because I'm only interested in having the files on the ...
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How to set up rsync to backup from win7 to NAS?
I'd like to use cwRsync to back up some files from my Win7 notebook to my Synology DS211j NAS at home. (Why cwRsync? That should be another question, but basically because I tried quite a number of ...
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What similar rsync tool for Windows?
What can you recommend of an application that looks the same on rsync for windows? I will be doing migration where I need to transfer data from Windows to Linux. I like the rsync on linux where you ...
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rsync: divide out local files in different servers with limited space
I have 80 Gb of files in a local directory that I want to backup dividing them out in different servers with a limited space quota, using rsync, eg:
LOCAL 80 Gb ====> server1: first 30 Gb
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Can I answer “No to All” when doing a copy in Windows?
When copying/merging large directory structures under Windows, is it possible to do something like "Yes to all" but in reverse so that all existing files are not overwritten?
There is a similar ...
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Troubleshooting Deltacopy (Cygwin + Rsync)
I've set up Deltacopy on a two computers with Windows 7 but it timeouts. Telnet localhost 873 works when run on the server, but telnet <IP> 873 timeouts if run on the client. Windows Firewall is ...
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rsync from one source to multiple different target directories according to pattern?
Assume e.g. you want to backup all files matching pattern a to directory A and all files matching pattern b to directory B. The natural way to do this are two separate rsync commands.
rsync ...
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rsync Permission denied backing up a remote directory to my local machine
NOTE: I found this similar question: Run rsync with root permission on remote machine.
That doesn't answer my question. The answer there doesn't provide enough explanation for me to parse my own ...
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Difference between scp and rsync?
Title pretty much says it all. If I have a folder (mydir/) on server1.com, and want to copy it to a parent folder on server2.com, then what is the difference (performance, security, capabilities, ...
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Rsync : delete remote files after transfer
A little question : How can I delete some files after (or during) the transfer with rsync tool ?
rsync -e ssh -avl --delete-after --stats --progress --exclude-from 'exludes.txt' source/ ...
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Explicitly backup selected files/folders with rsync
I want to make a backup of some specific files/folders of my $HOME to an external hard drive. I am using rsync with the following syntax:
rsync -avh --delete-excluded --exclude-from=.backup.lst ...
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Rsync equiv of “do not terminate”
Is there anyway to not terminate, but instead when this type of error is encountered?
sent 605.85M bytes received 19.89G bytes 483.43K bytes/sec total
size is 248.71G speedup is 12.13 rsync ...
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Check for duplicate files in two collections, ignoring duplicates within A
I have four similar large collections of website files. They are archived copies of a similar directory tree from different times in the past.
I want to merge them all to the most recent collection, ...
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Linux Backup Program with Web UI That Supports Duplicity Style Encrypted Backup and rsync
I'm looking for a backup tool that supports duplicity style encrypted backups and rsync. The status of the backups for several different directories should be shown summarizes in a web UI or simple ...
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Why does rsync skip a sub-folder named “core”?
I'm using the following command to synch files from one folder to another on my local OSX system:
rsync -avC ./src ~/Sites
Inside of ./src there are several sub-folders:
./src/assets
./src/core
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Can I use Acronis to create and sync a mirror of my main drive?
Having had a complete disk failure the other day, and spending two days getting everything back to normal (read: i had backups of data, but re-installing apps and a million little configs were the ...
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What kind of files are optimal for rsync?
As to my best knowledge the algorithm within the rsync tool will slice the file and compute for each slice a hash. So I assume that there are files where the hash algo will rebuild a file without ...
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rsnapshot stalled backup
Some months ago, I've installed rsnapshot on my local home-server in order to back up all clients in my home network. Since these clients aren't 24/7 online, rsnapshot does a lot of "roll-backs" of ...
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what is the difference between rsnapshot and rdiffbackup?
What is the difference between rsnapshot and rdiffbackup?
Which is better for backing up a new snapshot of my laptop (over the Internet from some remote location) to my server (which already has the ...
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Perserve icon with rsync
I was under the impression from here among other research, that rsync was the command used to sync directories and any contents they have.
I have tried the following commands:
rsync -avzr ...
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Using rsync to synchronise folders without overwriting files of same name
I would like to synchronise the contents of two directories.
Without overwriting but to create a copy if two files have the same name, but different sizes
Without duplicating if two files have the ...
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Would rsync save meaningful amount of data transfer for compressed/encrypted files?
Would rsync save meaningful amount of data transfer for sync'ing
1) zip files,
2) ASCII armored GPG encrypted files, and
3) Mathematica .mx files,
respectively ?
A typical scenario is that I ...
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rsync cygwin also hangs without ssh
I've been using rsync installed via cygwin on two Windows 7 PCs to sync my music and picture collection, but eventually it always stops transferring after some time. I've googled and it seems that ...
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rsync: archiving over ssh
I'd like to use rsync to regularly archive a local directory containing upwards of 4G of data, using a low-privileges user account on a remote machine that has write access to only the backup ...
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Find modified files from rsync backup script
I'm using rsync on my Ububtu Linux server to take a time machine like backup of the system. Every hour, a cronjob runs the following script (partial excerpt):
rsync -a --link-dest=/backup/current ...
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Do Linux swap partitions need to be cloned?
I'm in the process of cloning my hard disk in order to test some unstable software.
One of the partitions is Linux-swap. From my understanding, it can be used by the os as additional ram. So this ...
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How to login a user with decrypted FileVault home directory?
I'm using OSX Snow Leopard and a FileVault protected home directory for my user. To backup my HDD I make a live rsync backup of a whole filesystem to external drive:
rsync [parameters] / ...
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Rsync Backups change_dir failed
I've made a very simple script to perform backups:
#!/bin/bash
# ~/backup.sh
(
while read line
do
rsync -az $line rbmj@example.com:~/
done
) < backupdirs
And backupdirs:
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rsync fails after server restart
Usually I use the command
rsync -av --delete someroot/somedir user@remote_server_ip:/someroot/.
on my development server to synchronize somedir to a remote server. It worked fine. But after the ...
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Single-user, multiple-computer versioning system
I have two computers (work and home) and wish to set up a version control system for source code and TeX documents. There are no collaborators (i.e., single-user/editor). Most of the source files are ...
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rsync from multiple sources
I have a 40G music collection that I need to sync to a server in another country.
At the moment I am rsyncing it across, however I have that same 40G collection on two machines with two internet ...
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Rsync on Windows XP works fine on-demand, but hangs when run as a scheduled task
I want to use Rsync to back up a web site to a Windows XP system that gets backed up to tape every night. I've looked at cwRsync and Grsync, and they both work fine, as long as I'm running them while ...
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Rsync from Linux to Windows producing problems with back slash
I know if I was having an issue with rsync with characters I'd use --iconv= - but this issue is some file names have black slashes in them, and I don't have the ability to rename the original files.
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rsync with Cygwin creating weird directories
I'm trying to use rsync to backup data from a local shared drive to a remove server. Both the local machine and the remote server are running Cygwin under Windows XP. I use the following command:
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What if files change while rsync is running?
I am using rsync to copy ~10GB of small files. What happens if the files in the source directory are modified while rsync is running?
