Bug#604398: rsync: hard links messed up on local to local copy

2010-11-26 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 01:59:32PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Sun 21 Nov 2010, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > > > > and rsync is run (using make) like this, > > > > env time sh -c "set -e ; set -u ; cd / ; rsync -rlptgoDH -x --del > > --inplace ./ /dev/sdb9" > > I'm sure you don't run r

Bug#604398: rsync: hard links messed up on local to local copy

2010-11-23 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 21 Nov 2010, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote: > > and rsync is run (using make) like this, > > env time sh -c "set -e ; set -u ; cd / ; rsync -rlptgoDH -x --del > --inplace ./ /dev/sdb9" I'm sure you don't run rsync with a block device as destination... > After the rsync copy completes, I

Bug#604398: rsync: hard links messed up on local to local copy

2010-11-21 Thread Jeffrey Sheinberg
Package: rsync Version: 3.0.7-1~bpo50+1 Severity: normal Hi, I am using rsync to make local copies of my root filesystem to a backup partition. The source "/" filesystem is read-only, and the system is running having been booted into "emergency" mode, like this, # cat /proc/cmdline roo