On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 04:16 -0600, chuang liu wrote: > I did a few more tests, and found some strange behaviors of rsync. If I > put the address rsync://URL in the src, rsync works fine. But if I put it > as the destination, rsync fails. If I use another format > <hostname>::<module> for the destination, rsync works.
> I used a very old rsync (version 2.5.4, prototocl version 26). Is this a > known issue with this version? Did I use rsync incorrectly? According to OLDNEWS, support for the rsync:// syntax for the destination was added in rsync 2.5.6, so yes, it is a "known issue". Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html