change of behaviour on rsync -R and top level symlinks?

2010-06-15 Thread Marc MERLIN
Here is what my data looks like: source:~# ls -ld /data /data/etc2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2010-06-03 23:32 /data -> /export/hda3 -rw-r--r-- 1 produser prod 4 2010-06-15 17:30 /data/etc2 destination:/# ls -l /data lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2010-06-15 18:36 /data -> /export/hda3 Let's sta

Re: Complex include/excludes with rsync?

2010-06-15 Thread Brian Mathis
Thanks for the reply. I had also posted to serverfault and got a good reply that explains better (http://serverfault.com/questions/150269/complex-includes-excludes-with-rsync/150519#150519) I think the fact that this comes up so often means there's a problem with the documentation. http://www

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7514] New: Fix socketpair_tcp()

2010-06-15 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7514 Summary: Fix socketpair_tcp() Product: rsync Version: 3.0.7 Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core

Re: about rsyncing of block devices

2010-06-15 Thread Václav Ovsík
Hi, On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:12:18PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > Hiya, > > I can see it's a regular subject on this list. > > I, like others wanted to use rsync to synchronise two block > devices (as it happens one lvm volume and one nbd device served > by qemu-img on a remote host from

Re: about rsyncing of block devices

2010-06-15 Thread Václav Ovsík
Hi, On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:12:18PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > Hiya, > > I can see it's a regular subject on this list. > > I, like others wanted to use rsync to synchronise two block > devices (as it happens one lvm volume and one nbd device served > by qemu-img on a remote host from a

Re: about rsyncing of block devices

2010-06-15 Thread Eliot Moss
So this is an interesting problem to think about. It seems to take this form: - Data comes in fixed-size blocks - Blocks may be copied elsewhere - Blocks may be modified in place - Blocks may be copied with modification BUT - There are no insertions/deletions - The overall file does not change

about rsyncing of block devices

2010-06-15 Thread Stephane Chazelas
Hiya, I can see it's a regular subject on this list. I, like others wanted to use rsync to synchronise two block devices (as it happens one lvm volume and one nbd device served by qemu-img on a remote host from a qcow2 disk image so that I can keep the old versions) As I couldn't find any report