On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 06:25:36PM -0700, Carl E. Thompson wrote: > This patch causes rsync to honor the absence of the "--inplace" option > for permission, owner and group changes.
Unfortunately, that's not what the --inplace option is for. Its purpose is to control how data updates occur, not attribute updates. If I make rsync break hard-links to make attribute updates, it will need to be a new option, as is done in Matt's patch. The problems you list with the --link-dest option only affect a client that contacts the server to do a backup. If you instead have your backup server contact the client machines, things are much safer. You can still use an rsync daemon (one per client) for the transfers, if you like. There was a suggest to rsync allow a daemon to be configured with a link-dest option in the config file. That also solves some of the problems, but would also require that the daemon use a pre-transfer script to move any old content out of the way for the current copy (since it is intended that a --link-dest copy goes into an empty hierarchy). e.g. it could manage a symlink for the current and prior dir and have the daemon config file used the symlink names to get to the right directories. ..wayne.. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
