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Can rsync ignore errors that happen due to NFS cache inconsistency?
I have a process running on Linux that repeatedly updates a file on an NFS filesystem. The process writes the new data to a tempfile (on the same NFS) and calls the rename() syscall to replace the ...
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why does rsync not update times on remote even when itemize changes shows time differences
I'm using rsync to sync files from one NFS mount to another NFS mount. Files exist at the remote location already because of a previously executed scp command from the local mount. The consequence of ...
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Rsync always failing at the same point
I made a script for my Proxmox host to make a copy of its daily backups to another machine (running Windows Server 2022).
The script mounts a NFS share from the Windows host and runs this rsync ...
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Is there a way to keep two directories (on two servers) in sync with each other, truly?
I have two servers in AWS that we are using to store a software packages codebase that is accessed by the web application/server.
/var/www/vhosts/application-dua/content/
This same folder structure ...
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Mirror remote directory locally and update remote on local change
I currently have my source code on machine A, and I want to be able to access that source code from machine B and machine C
The idea being, I use one central point to store the source code, then I ...
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Syncing immutable folders on linux (rsync/unison/some thing else?)
Consider the following directory layout:
/foo
/ABZE1
a1.txt
a2.txt
...
a59682.txt
/BBSDF
b1.txt
b2.txt
....
b42333.txt
...
foo is the parent folder, ...
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Rsync behaviour/differences & newbie
From my understanding, rsync over SMB tries to build a file list each time on source/destination to check any changes have been modified before a copy takes please.
I’m trying to understand the ...
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automatic file encryption on NFS or RSYNC for remote incremental backup?
What solutions should I be looking at to allow an incremental backup via rsync over nfs4 to allow files to be encrypted on the backup host?
I have zero control over the backup host's software so the ...
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Transparent failover for NFS home directory (with LDAP users)
Background:
In our work environment, we have LDAP users together with NFS homes. So you sign on LDAP server, autofs mounts the homes, etc. Pretty neat so far. However, from time to time, the NFS or ...
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Did killing rsync job corrupt my files
While my regular backup script was running (using rsync to move files from NFS to external harddrive) we had network problems and I was forced to kill the rsync job in the middle of moving files. ...
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