Re: --link-dest / --hard-links problem

2005-04-23 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:46:23PM -0500, Raphael Jaffey wrote: > Should this be OK or is the most recent "bleeding edge" more stable? The CVS version is more stable than 2.6.4 because it's almost entirely composed of bug fixes (I'm working toward a bug-fix release in the not- too-distant future).

RE: I already used --recursive

2005-04-23 Thread Tony
Client :: Server Local :: Remote Sender :: Receiver Reader :: Writer Anything that makes the pull behavior like the push behavior should help. The overall problem is that of the transfer and gets into the bit about the whole being more than the sum of the parts. If I have control of both

Re: --link-dest / --hard-links problem

2005-04-23 Thread Raphael Jaffey
Hi Wayne, The patch doesn't just drop in as there's additional code to handle "verbose" mode in the 2.6.4 code which is not in the most recent "nightly" tarball. It looks trival to insert the patch manually. Should this be OK or is the most recent "bleeding edge" more stable? I'm very concerned

Re: I already used --recursive

2005-04-23 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:58:02AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > $ rsync -avz debian.linux.org.tw:var/lib/apt/diet.lists var/lib/apt/diet.lists > receiving file list ... link_stat var/lib/apt/diet.lists : No such file or > directory done > client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some fil

RE: I already used --recursive

2005-04-23 Thread Tony
A couple of key words in the message. perhaps or " client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option? " If you had specified a filename (that exists on the server) and the client gets nothing There is a good chance that you wanted to use --recursive. --

I already used --recursive

2005-04-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
In /usr/share/doc/rsync/README.gz: BUG REPORTS --- If you have web access then please look at... Well what if you don't have web access? You don't mention what to do then. "Send bugs to rsync@lists.samba.org" probably. OK. Will do. Here's one now: $ rsync -avz debian.linux.org.t

Re: --link-dest / --hard-links problem

2005-04-23 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 02:01:38PM -0500, Raphael Jaffey wrote: > This can be easily reproduced locally with the following example: Thanks for the test case -- it makes things really easy to fix. Attached is a patch that fixes this bug. It's for the CVS version but it should apply to 2.6.4 as wel

--link-dest / --hard-links problem

2005-04-23 Thread Raphael Jaffey
I've looked around for a bug report on this problem and haven't seen one, so I apologize if this has already been discussed. I have a homegrown script which uses rsync to maintain daily backups of roughly twenty Redhat Linux systems running RH 7.2, 7.3, AS 3, and AS 4. As there are files with mul

Re: hardlink bug in 2.6.4?

2005-04-23 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:50:57PM -0400, Erik Jan Tromp wrote: > Since the 'update files/dirs' & 'update hardlinks' steps appear to be > mixed together instead of completely separate/sequential steps, what > about the 'No such file or directory' error actually complaining about > the destination _

Re: http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.4.tar.gz corrupted ?? [EOM]

2005-04-23 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:51:25PM -0700, dan tran wrote: > my winzip rejects it I just downloaded it, and it's fine. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html