From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 11 17:55:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A729037B401 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:55:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Received: from jimslaptop.int (jimslaptop.int [192.168.5.8]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7C13Em07788; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 21:03:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 20:55:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham X-X-Sender: To: Tony Wells Cc: Duncan Sayers , Subject: Re: backup server In-Reply-To: <3B744C62.7F4333E2@camel.kdsi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Tony Wells wrote: > > Jim Durham wrote: > > > -- > > > > I wasn't familiar with it, but I found it in ports and read the > > package description. Sounds interesting, but if it is a cousin > > of rcp, it's probably unsafe in a secure environment as you would > > have to run portmap and rstatd. I'd feel better if it were using > > scp instead of rcp 8-) . > > It will connect over several different protocols, one of which is ssh. > We use it over ssh and it works great. > > > > > -Jim I decided to install rsync, and after reading the man page, it mentioned that it now supported ssh. It didn't say this in the package description. I had an 8 gig partition to copy, so I decided to give it a "baptism of fire". It worked OK, sorta. I saw some long pauses during the copy and it never exited at the end, although it did appear to copy everything. Another thing I noticed is that the man page indicates that -a is equivilent to -rptfgoD . I noticed that this copies everything that the sym links are pointing to. Reading the man page, it seems like it would not do this unless you gave it the -L argument. So, have you played with this and how *do* you get it to make sym links, but not copy what they point to? Am I reading -L backwards? -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message