Rsync on Kindle Touch

[leonardo84]

Hi!

Is there a way to make rsync work in my KT?

My goal is to make a script to sync my mnt/us directory to a dropbox folder, so i can sync my kindle everytime i get into a wi fi connection. I dont have great scripting skills, but i'm trying to get into it, if someone point me a way!

I already managed to get ssh working through wi-fi, but im stuck now.

Thanks in advance!

[twobob]

[root@kindle doom]# rsync

PHP Code:

rsync  version 3.0.9  protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2011 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: [url]http://rsync.samba.org/[/url]
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    no socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, no IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, no ACLs, no xattrs, iconv, symtimes

rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.

rsync is a file transfer program capable of efficient remote update
via a fast differencing algorithm.

Usage: rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... DEST
  or   rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST:DEST
  or   rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST::DEST
  or   rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/DEST
  or   rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST:SRC [DEST]
  or   rsync [OPTION]... [USER@]HOST::SRC [DEST]
  or   rsync [OPTION]... rsync://[USER@]HOST[:PORT]/SRC [DEST]
The ':' usages connect via remote shell, while '::' & 'rsync://' usages connect
to an rsync daemon, and require SRC or DEST to start with a module name.

Options
 -v, --verbose               increase verbosity
 -q, --quiet                 suppress non-error messages
     --no-motd               suppress daemon-mode MOTD (see manpage caveat)
 -c, --checksum              skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size
 -a, --archive               archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)
     --no-OPTION             turn off an implied OPTION (e.g. --no-D)
 -r, --recursive             recurse into directories
 -R, --relative              use relative path names
     --no-implied-dirs       dont send implied dirs with --relative
 -b, --backup                make backups (see --suffix & --backup-dir)
     --backup-dir=DIR        make backups into hierarchy based in DIR
     --suffix=SUFFIX         set backup suffix (default ~ w/o --backup-dir)
 -u, --update                skip files that are newer on the receiver
     --inplace               update destination files in-place (SEE MAN PAGE)
     --append                append data onto shorter files
     --append-verify         like --append, but with old data in file checksum
 -d, --dirs                  transfer directories without recursing
 -l, --links                 copy symlinks as symlinks
 -L, --copy-links            transform symlink into referent file/dir
     --copy-unsafe-links     only "unsafe" symlinks are transformed
     --safe-links            ignore symlinks that point outside the source tree
 -k, --copy-dirlinks         transform symlink to a dir into referent dir
 -K, --keep-dirlinks         treat symlinked dir on receiver as dir
 -H, --hard-links            preserve hard links
 -p, --perms                 preserve permissions
 -E, --executability         preserve the files executability
     --chmod=CHMOD           affect file and/or directory permissions
 -o, --owner                 preserve owner (super-user only)
 -g, --group                 preserve group
     --devices               preserve device files (super-user only)
     --specials              preserve special files
 -D                          same as --devices --specials
 -t, --times                 preserve modification times
 -O, --omit-dir-times        omit directories from --times
     --super                 receiver attempts super-user activities
 -S, --sparse                handle sparse files efficiently
 -n, --dry-run               perform a trial run with no changes made
 -W, --whole-file            copy files whole (without delta-xfer algorithm)
 -x, --one-file-system       dont cross filesystem boundaries
 -B, --block-size=SIZE       force a fixed checksum block-size
 -e, --rsh=COMMAND           specify the remote shell to use
     --rsync-path=PROGRAM    specify the rsync to run on the remote machine
     --existing              skip creating new files on receiver
     --ignore-existing       skip updating files that already exist on receiver
     --remove-source-files   sender removes synchronized files (non-dirs)
     --del                   an alias for --delete-during
     --delete                delete extraneous files from destination dirs
     --delete-before         receiver deletes before transfer, not during
     --delete-during         receiver deletes during the transfer
     --delete-delay          find deletions during, delete after
     --delete-after          receiver deletes after transfer, not during
     --delete-excluded       also delete excluded files from destination dirs
     --ignore-errors         delete even if there are I/O errors
     --force                 force deletion of directories even if not empty
     --max-delete=NUM        dont delete more than NUM files
     --max-size=SIZE         dont transfer any file larger than SIZE
     --min-size=SIZE         dont transfer any file smaller than SIZE
     --partial               keep partially transferred files
     --partial-dir=DIR       put a partially transferred file into DIR
     --delay-updates         put all updated files into place at transfers end
 -m, --prune-empty-dirs      prune empty directory chains from the file-list
     --numeric-ids           dont map uid/gid values by user/group name
     --timeout=SECONDS       set I/O timeout in seconds
     --contimeout=SECONDS    set daemon connection timeout in seconds
 -I, --ignore-times          dont skip files that match in size and mod-time
     --size-only             skip files that match in size
     --modify-window=NUM     compare mod-times with reduced accuracy
 -T, --temp-dir=DIR          create temporary files in directory DIR
 -y, --fuzzy                 find similar file for basis if no dest file
     --compare-dest=DIR      also compare destination files relative to DIR
     --copy-dest=DIR         ... and include copies of unchanged files
     --link-dest=DIR         hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged
 -z, --compress              compress file data during the transfer
     --compress-level=NUM    explicitly set compression level
     --skip-compress=LIST    skip compressing files with a suffix in LIST
 -C, --cvs-exclude           auto-ignore files the same way CVS does
 -f, --filter=RULE           add a file-filtering RULE
 -F                          same as --filter='dir-merge /.rsync-filter'
                             repeated: --filter='- .rsync-filter'
     --exclude=PATTERN       exclude files matching PATTERN
     --exclude-from=FILE     read exclude patterns from FILE
     --include=PATTERN       dont exclude files matching PATTERN
     --include-from=FILE     read include patterns from FILE
     --files-from=FILE       read list of source-file names from FILE
 -0, --from0                 all *-from/filter files are delimited by 0s
 -s, --protect-args          no space-splitting; only wildcard special-chars
     --address=ADDRESS       bind address for outgoing socket to daemon
     --port=PORT             specify double-colon alternate port number
     --sockopts=OPTIONS      specify custom TCP options
     --blocking-io           use blocking I/O for the remote shell
     --stats                 give some file-transfer stats
 -8, --8-bit-output          leave high-bit chars unescaped in output
 -h, --human-readable        output numbers in a human-readable format
     --progress              show progress during transfer
 -P                          same as --partial --progress
 -i, --itemize-changes       output a change-summary for all updates
     --out-format=FORMAT     output updates using the specified FORMAT
     --log-file=FILE         log what were doing to the specified FILE
     --log-file-format=FMT   log updates using the specified FMT
     --password-file=FILE    read daemon-access password from FILE
     --list-only             list the files instead of copying them
     --bwlimit=KBPS          limit I/O bandwidth; KBytes per second
     --write-batch=FILE      write a batched update to FILE
     --only-write-batch=FILE like --write-batch but w/o updating destination
     --read-batch=FILE       read a batched update from FILE
     --protocol=NUM          force an older protocol version to be used
     --iconv=CONVERT_SPEC    request charset conversion of filenames
 -4, --ipv4                  prefer IPv4
 -6, --ipv6                  prefer IPv6
     --version               print version number
(-h) --help                  show this help (-h is --help only if used alone)

Use "rsync --daemon --help" to see the daemon-mode command-line options.
Please see the rsync(1) and rsyncd.conf(5) man pages for full documentation.
See [url]http://rsync.samba.org/[/url] for updates, bug reports, and answers
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1420) [client=3.0.9] 


http://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync

about two pages down should do you.

you have the app right?

[leonardo84]

well here is what i did

i download the last release at http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/

copied to kindle

unziped uzing tar

went inside directory and ./configure

error

configure.sh: error: in `/bin/rsync-3.0.9':
configure.sh: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

[qlob]

If launching from the host machine, the script below may need tweaking for use over wifi, instead of using the /media drive on the host linux machine.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ighlight=rsync

[NiLuJe]

@twobob: It's bundled in USBNet .

[twobob]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@twobob: It's bundled in USBNet .

then happy days, I should keep a "stock" image around to check in I suppose

Always worried about presumption

[NiLuJe]

@twobob: Actually, it might very well be part of the base system on the K5, too. Can't remember if that was rsync or lsof...

[leonardo84]

seems like rsync isnt installed as i cant run it from terminal. I got the error "command not found"

then i downloaded binaries from

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/

unzipped and tried to install

this is the errors i get

/bin/rsync-3.0.9$ ./prepare-source
./prepare-source: line 49: make: not found
/bin/rsync-3.0.9$ make


/bin/rsync-3.0.9$ ./configure
configure.sh: Configuring rsync 3.0.9
checking build system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu
checking whether to include debugging symbols... yes
checking for gcc... no
configure.sh: error: in `/bin/rsync-3.0.9':
configure.sh: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no

[twobob]

worked example:

me@dev ~ $ rsync -uLrvkn --ipv4 --progress --include="*" ~/GIT/buildroot-k3-current/output/target/usr/ root@k:/mnt/us/usr

or on the kindle

[root@kindle root]# rsync -urvn --ipv4 --progress --include="*" me@dev:~/GIT/buildroot-k3-current/output/target/usr/ /mnt/us/usr

for example.

(remove n for actually doing something)

or...

rsync -vzLS --ipv4 --progress /multistrap-debian-sid/rsync/debian.ext3 root@kt:/mnt/us/debian.ext3


or

rsync -vzL --inplace --ipv4 --progress /multistrap-debian-sid/rsync/debian.ext3 root@kt:/mnt/us/debian.ext3

could also be a way to do it.

[twobob]

Originally Posted by leonardo84

seems like rsync isnt installed as i cant run it from terminal. I got the error "command not found"

then i downloaded binaries from

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/

unzipped and tried to install

this is the errors i get

/bin/rsync-3.0.9$ ./prepare-source
./prepare-source: line 49: make: not found
/bin/rsync-3.0.9$ make


/bin/rsync-3.0.9$ ./configure
configure.sh: Configuring rsync 3.0.9
checking build system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu
checking whether to include debugging symbols... yes
checking for gcc... no
configure.sh: error: in `/bin/rsync-3.0.9':
configure.sh: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no

My first thought: It's not in your path. for some reason.

/usr/bin/rsync on the 3

I have bundled a version for the 5.
you cant just "make" on the device just yet OOTB. working on it.

EDIT: I configure my device like: http://minimodding.com/article9-Kind...ng-custom-apps for running custom apps

[leonardo84]

Originally Posted by twobob

My first thought: It's not in your path. for some reason.

/usr/bin/rsync on the 3

I have bundled a version for the 5.
you cant just "make" on the device just yet OOTB. working on it.

EDIT: I configure my device like: http://minimodding.com/article9-Kind...ng-custom-apps for running custom apps

its working now, thank you!

[twobob]

Originally Posted by leonardo84

its working now, thank you!

; ) no worries. Happy Halloween