I’m trying to launch an ‘rsync’ using subprocess module and Popen inside of a thread. After I call the rsync I need to read the output as well. I’m using the communicate method to read the output. The code runs fine when I do not use a thread. It appears that when I use a thread it hangs on the communicate call. Another thing I’ve noticed is that when I set shell=False I get nothing back from the communicate when running in a thread.
I want to rsync only certain file types (e.g. .py) and I want to exclude files in some directories (e.g. venv).
When I use the -a option as is asked and answered in Preserve the permissions with rsync, I got a lot of “rsync: failed to set permissions on” errors.
I have this command to backup a remote machine. The problem is that I need root rights to read and copy all files. I have no root user enabled for security reasons and use sudo the Ubuntu way. Would I need some cool piping or something to do this?
I am running Fedora 17 64-bit and the rsync --exclude=/home/ben/<dir> is not working as expected.
I am trying to setup bi-direction or two way sync with rsync. In my case I only need to delete the files when syncing from B to A. So, I was thinking of running rsync twice as follow :
We have 2 Web Server node Primary and secondary, if the primary is down by any reason secondary will act as Prim.
I have been using a rsync script to synchronize data at one host with the data at another host. The data has numerous small-sized files that contribute to almost 1.2TB.
Rsync is a fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool. It can copy locally, to/from another host over any remote shell, or to/from a
remote rsync daemon. It offers a large number of options that control every aspect of its behavior and permit very flexible specification of the
set of files to be copied. It is famous for its delta-transfer algorithm, which reduces the amount of data sent over the network by sending only
the differences between the source files and the existing files in the destination.