[Samba] samba & rsync

[McKeever Chris]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 02:19 , John K. <brack102 at hotmail.com> sent:

>
>>I apologize if you already resolved this..I am a bit confused as to why you 
>>need to connect via samba for rsync.  I do something very similar and rsync 
>>handles
>>it all if I have the correct rsync mount points defined in the .conf file
>
>Thanks for replying chris,
>
>I don't need samba for rsync per se.  We use samba for other reasons.  It 
>would be just convinient.  However what is an rync mount point?  I should go 
>read about this.  Do you run an rsync deamon?


Yes, I run rsync on the linux side and the windows side as a daemon [lets call this the remote side ie where the daemon is run).  On the local 
side I launch rsync through a cron or windows scheduler/.bat file (we will call this the local side)

So if I want to rsync files from the linux box to the windows box, I have the daemon running on the remote windows box, in the .conf file you 
define where the mount point is (not sure if that is the correct terminology):

[prupref-1165]
path = e:/prupref-1165/
comment = prupref-1165 mirror
read only = false
use chroot = false


(this can be applied to the linux remote side as well if you are going from windows->linux)

I can see how going the rsync->smb would be a bit easier, but I had some issues with it.




>
>
>>From: McKeever Chris tech-mail at prupref.com>
>>Reply-To: tech-mail at prupref.com
>>To: samba at lists.samba.org, "John K." brack102 at hotmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: [Samba] samba & rsync
>>Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:01:13 -0600
>>
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:32 , John K. brack102 at hotmail.com> sent:
>>
>> >If anyone has time to look at this problem I would appreciate it.
>> >
>> >I think I am looking for a way to increase the "timeout" in samba (in the
>> >smb.conf file)
>> >for reporting a "down" link or "can't read xyz file".
>> >
>> >However I am writing to you folks because this problem has come up while
>> >using rsync
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >my problem
>> >==========
>> >
>> >We have a wan in which links from a central linux machine to a nodes 
>>which
>> >are xp machines
>> >from 1 to 5 minutes a night.  not very common, but it happens.
>> >
>> >we are using samba to mount directories on the remote linux machines to 
>>the
>> >local
>> >linux server.  (we use samba because we also have xp machines in our 
>>network
>> >it is just easier to use this for now).
>> >
>> >We use rsync nightly to backup remote directories to the local linux
>> >server.
>> >
>> >When one of the outages happes during a backup (rsync operation) either
>> >- if I have not set the --timout value in rsync the operation just
>> >continues.  Rysnc seems
>> >  not to notice that samba is reporting errors and just copies over I 
>>assume
>> >a bunch of 0000.
>> >  Of course the file is corrupted.
>>
>>I apologize if you already resolved this..I am a bit confused as to why you 
>>need
>>to connect via samba for rsync.  I do something very similar and rsync 
>>handles it
>>all if I have the correct rsync mount points defined in the .conf file
>>
>>
>> >
>> >- if I have set the --timeout value in rsync, in the case of failure 
>>rsync
>> >just drops out.  Of course if
>> >  i set the --timeout value to something like 2 minutes rsync seems to
>> >ignore the samba errors and continues.
>> >
>> >What I would like to do is set a timeout value in samba for reporting 
>>errors
>> >from what seems
>> >to be about 30 seconds to something like 6 minutes. Then I could set the
>> >--timeout value in rsync to
>> >something like 5 minutes.
>> >
>> >I can't find in man smb.conf anywhere were you can set something like "if
>> >you can't connect in 30 seconds" then report an error.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>-------------------------------------------
>>Chris McKeever
>>If you want to reply directly to me, please use 
>>cgmckeever--at--prupref---dot---com
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>>
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