https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11812
Bug ID: 11812
Summary: rsync without --verbose still writes "(new) backup_dir
is ..." to STDOUT
Product: rsync
Version: 3.1.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: P5
Component: core
Assignee: way...@samba.org
Reporter: mi.lists.bugzi...@alma.ch
QA Contact: rsync...@samba.org
rsync always writes "(new) backup_dir is ..." to STDOUT. Is this really
necessary?
rsync -a --delete --backup --backup-dir="_before-$(date +%F)" $source $dest
(new) backup_dir is _before-2016-03-27
This seems to have appeared in 3.1.1, which created the directory even if it
was not needed (see bug #11423).
Version 3.1.2 doesn't create useless backup-dirs any more, but if it does it
reports it to STDOUT which is also quite useless. We have --verbose when we
want to check what is going on. If everything works alright, I feel that rsync
without -v should remain silent, as is customary in Unix tools.
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