SUMMARY: rsync and excludes
2007-12-25 5:11:00
Thanks for all that respond. Here's the summary of answers I received:
Mostly all told me that it's not possible to do what we want with plain
rsync configuration .
David Foster suggested to use --exclude parameters on the clients where
the exclude files are on NFS mounted directories. This way we could use
the same rsync command on all clients if we use different NFS mounts.
This is not an option for us because the user can still call rsync with
other parameters to get non-authorized packages from the server.
Jamie Walker and Brandon Haberfeld suggested to use different rsync
"modules" or shares on the server with approbiate hosts allow entries
in the rsyncd.conf file. That maybe a solution for us: I'm thinking of
having one directory tree for common packages that could be accessed by
all rsync clients and one additional directory tree for every rsync
client which could only be accessed by this rsync client.
Jamie Walker also suggested to use symbolic links and the rsync options
to "ignore" sym links in this scenario to save space. That's not an
option for us because we use a lot of symbolic links in our package tree
and without the symlinks our package structure will not work anymore.
Hutin Bertrand suggests to use rdist instead of rsync. That maybe an
option for us in the future if we do not get rsync running the way we
need it.
Rickard Hansson suggests using setfacl and getfacl. Our master rsync
server will very likely run on AIX and I don't know if there's something
like setfacl and getfacl on AIX
Again, thanks for all that respond. Hopefully I did not forget anybody
in the summary.
My original questions is at the end of this message
regards
Bernd
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: rsync and excludes
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:57:41 +0000
From: Bernd Schemmer <Bernd.Schemmer at gmx.de>
To: codeprof at codeprof.com
Hi,
We're using rsync to synchronize our Solaris Installation server.
One server, the master server, holds all packages in
/usr/sys/inst.images/SunOS
The other server get the packages from the master server via rsync
The other servers should get all or only some of the packages from the
master server using rsync.
We want to hold the configuration (which server can access which
packages) completely on the master server running the rsync daemon.
Is it possible to configure the rsync daemon on the master server so
that for example
server1.test.net can rsync all packages
and
server2.test.net can only rsync some of the packages (e.g.
common.pkg, test1.pkg and test2/test2.pkg)
and
server3.test.net can only rsync some other packages (e.g.
common.pkg, test3.pkg, test4/test4.pkg )
without changing something on the rsync client. The clients should only
do a rsync -avz /usr/sys/inst.images/SunOS
They shouldn't care about the packages they can access or not.
And they should NOT be able to copy a package via rsync if it is not
allowed on the server - even if they try.
Can this be done with rsync?
regards
Bernd
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Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html
Mas temprano que tarde el mundio cambiara
Fidel Castro
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