Hans-Christian Jehg (h...@jehg.dk) wrote on 23 October 2009 17:32: >The circumstance where this happens is now known, it is when requests >to the shared in files returns "permission denied" from the file >server... [snip] >I am not at all sure where it goes wrong, but in the end the result is >that rsync thinks certain files has disappeared. It could for instance >go wrong in the cifs client, but also in rsync when trying to read the >remote file (I am not using --ignore-errors) if no proper read checking >is in place (I do not think that this is the case but I would mention >it anyway).
>My immediate problem is that rsync proceeds happily and deletes any >vanished files in the end (--delete-after). >rsync stops with exit code 24, but by then the damage is already done >(files deleted) . Strange, I have code 23 when rsync gets permission denied. This is important because vanished files are a normal occurrence and files should be removed in this case. OTOH, code 23 is an error, and rsync should not do deletions if you don't use --ignore-errors. If the exit status is 23 you're likely hitting this bug: Matt McCutchen (m...@mattmccutchen.net) wrote on 23 September 2009 22:19: >On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 20:59 +0200, Enno Middelberg wrote: >> Here the two directories which couldn't be read have been deleted from >> the target directory (ie, the files contained in them were deleted, >> the directories did still exist, if I remember correctly). If I >> understand the man page correctly, rsync should not delete files from >> the target directory when an error occurs. This can be overridden with >> the "--ignore-errors" command line switch, but this switch has >> definitely not been used. > >Maybe you are hitting this issue: > >https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6719 -- 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
