On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 20:20 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:00 -0500, Ming Zhang wrote: > > We always run rsync with --files-from and sometime it gets a error code > > 23, partial transfer. is it possible to find out what files are not > > transferred without check the error message by human eye(since we want > > to do it in a script)? > > Not easily, since the error messages indicating different kinds of > failure for a given file don't follow a standard pattern. Some > approaches:
is it possible to change those error messages into a standard pattern? > > 1. Write a humongous sed script to match all the error messages and > extract the filenames. > > 2. Use --log-file, and look at what files are *not* itemized in the log. > (Most failures, but evidently not certain attribute-related failures, > will cause a file to be omitted from the log.) > > 3. The most pragmatic approach: rerun rsync with --dry-run and look at > which files are still itemized as different. i am trying to do 1 now and think 3 is better. but since rsync daemon know which file(s) are not transferred, can rsync daemon pass these information back to rsync client and print it out? > > Matt > -- Ming Zhang @#$%^ purging memory... (*!% http://blackmagic02881.wordpress.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/blackmagic02881 -------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
