Rsync-/usr/bin/rsync: Argument List Too Long

hello guys, just want to ask I have files on the server running SUSE 11 and i rsync to My WD Cloud via NFS.

but i notice some it shows some error like "This operation is not permitted"

I had used rsync -av parameters.

But when I used rsync -rltuv parameters it seems to work fine.

Why rsync -av parameter is used there are errors even though I set on WD My Cloud shared folder as the permissions as 777?

Thanks for any input.

Hi all

I got two questions about rsync:

1. I am copying a huge dir with lots of files, how do I see the overall progress? I put in the progress flag but now it show the progress each individual files.

2. Is rsync slower than cp? I used CP to copy over a NFS mount and that took about an hour. I am using rsync to copy over the same mount over the same NFS and so far it has taken 10 minutes to copy 7G. I got over 150G of stuff.

I just used rsync -avh --progress ...

Thanks
Davy

Hey guys, I have rsync going to another remote server
it works good, however, lets say server A deleted a directory, server B wont sync up to it.

if I were to add a directory to Server A, then server B will add it as well. so server B is just not deleting stuff.

is there a proper rsync command i can use ?

would rsync -xzva --delete /src /dst delete everything and start the rsync from scratch? or is there another way to do this

hi experts

I am running a large rsync job, but the exclude list doesn't seem to be working:

The rsync log shows this file as being copied over
/a/test 4.11/Logs/2015-03-03_PID_1234/x.y

but the exclude file clearly includes this line:
/a/test*/Logs/*PID*

So shouldn't it have been excluded?
Thanks

Hi All,
I am trying to perform an rsync without a check sum verification at the end of the copy.

I have tried both the -W (whole file) and the --no-checksum option and at the end of both file copies it performs a verification.


Code:

[root@centsrv01 /]# nice -n 20 rsync -avz --no-checksum  --bwlimit=2000 --progress /opt/vidconvert/converted/testfile.mp4 /opt/RouterUSB/TV/ChromeCast/
sending incremental file list
testfile.mp4
  1400440237 100%    1.94MB/s    0:11:28 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)

I am copying from an XFS filesystem to a NTFS (CIFS) file system to a Samba share. Unfortunalty NFS is not an option.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

hey guys, sorry for asking a dumb question, but some of the terminology online is not grasping me well, and still leaving me confused


in crontab -e

I have a shell script that contains

rsync /home/willc86 willc86@server02:/home/willc86/backup

the script works good by itself, however i have to put in a password which I understand. i know crontab works, because i used rsync script in the local machine. I am just having problems trying to sync it to another server

how do i get this rsync going in crontab to back it up to another server.

Please forgive me but I'm a little new to Red Hat (RHEL 5). I'm using rysnc to backup critical data and to a second disk; here is what I'm typing at the command line rsync -rvgal /data/disk1/share /data/backup/share. It appears that the softlinks are not transfered to the backup drive and some of the links point to data not located in the source folder (/data/share). After reading the rsync man page I was a little confused about the L option (vs the l option). In order to ensure that the linked files are moved should I type the below:

rsync -rvgaL /data/disk1/share /data/backup/share

A million thanks,
Johnny Mac

I am using Rsync to backup files to a another machine, the users on my fileserver do not exist on the backup server so Rsync throws errors about the permissions. It copies the files fine but I want to get rid of the errors and have Rsync ignore the permissions when backing up.

/backup is a mounted ftp directory

Below is the current command and output:
Code:

root@Fileserver:~# rsync -av --delete /shared/fileshare/ /backup/backup
building file list ... done
created directory /backup/backup
./
manager/
manager/chironfs.txt
manager/cronman.txt
manager/curlftpfs.txt
manager/curlman.txt
manager/getnetaddress.txt
manager/grepman.txt
manager/rsyncman.txt
manager/tarman.txt
public/
user1/
user10/
user2/
user3/
user4/
user5/
user6/
user7/
user8/
user9/
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.chironfs.txt.c6MbJ7" failed: Operation not                  permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.cronman.txt.hdBG4P" failed: Operation not                  permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.curlftpfs.txt.t1sG4L" failed: Operation no                 t permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.curlman.txt.6oWPoW" failed: Operation not                  permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.getnetaddress.txt.V8z8Kk" failed: Operatio                 n not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.grepman.txt.REh4WW" failed: Operation not                  permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.rsyncman.txt.ho8VNM" failed: Operation not                  permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.tarman.txt.BkcmeS" failed: Operation not p                 ermitted (1)

sent 211115 bytes  received 274 bytes  6710.76 bytes/sec
total size is 210263  speedup is 0.99
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(977) [sende                 r=2.6.9]
root@Fileserver:~#

I tried the flag to adding the no flag to -p but it still didn't work, see below:
Code:

root@Fileserver:~# rsync -av --no-p --delete /shared/fileshare/ /backup/backup
building file list ... done
./
manager/
manager/chironfs.txt
manager/cronman.txt
manager/curlftpfs.txt
manager/curlman.txt
manager/getnetaddress.txt
manager/grepman.txt
manager/rsyncman.txt
manager/tarman.txt
public/
user1/
user10/
user2/
user3/
user4/
user5/
user6/
user7/
user8/
user9/
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.chironfs.txt.6Q3eP2" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.cronman.txt.FC8Orx" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.curlftpfs.txt.mlVSN9" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.curlman.txt.vlJ4b1" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.getnetaddress.txt.LXmft0" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.grepman.txt.SVuaye" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.rsyncman.txt.KTNYqA" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/backup/backup/manager/.tarman.txt.zcU90c" failed: Operation not permitted (1)

sent 211115 bytes  received 274 bytes  7686.87 bytes/sec
total size is 210263  speedup is 0.99
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9]

This is probably very basic, but I am totally new to Linux.

I am tryng to sync a usb data stick to Documents directory using:
rsync -auvhi /media/2C24-DC8F/ ~/Documents/

I then sync the other way [rsync -auvhin ~/Documents/ /media/2C24-DC8F/] expecting little or nothing, but end up with a massive list. A typical item being: .f.....g... boats/Siskiwit-Bay-SOF.pdf

My very limited undertanding makes me think that the group has changed during the first operation despite using -a, which I thought preserved the group.

Basically I am trying to keep /Documents and my data stick identical as I move between computers. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hello--can someone tell me how to RSYNC bteween two servers with IP addresses, username and passwords while removing the files at the senders end? Do I need to login as root on both servers? I appreciate your input.