Re: Problem copying hard-linked symlinks

2014-06-13 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: > When copying these with -H, rsync gets more than a little confused: > Your rsync must be configured without CAN_HARDLINK_SYMLINK being defined (see config.h), as the normal code has been working fine for quite a while. Apparently the we-

Re: --dry-run reliability ?

2014-06-13 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The problem here isn't transfer size it is that rsync is storing the affected files with and without the ACL even though the file data is the same. The solution is to run a single manual rsync using the old method that predates --link-dest... 1, find

--dry-run reliability ?

2014-06-13 Thread daitheflu
Hi, I'm using rsync to backup my files. I have also added a pre-backup step where the script checks if there is enough space on the destination for rsync to run successfully. The goal is to make room (delete oldest backups) if that's not the case. I'm running rsync with -ahAXS --numeric-ids --

Problem copying hard-linked symlinks

2014-06-13 Thread Chris Thompson
This has been niggling me for a while, but am only now getting around to reporting it. I have reproduced the problem with rsync 3.1.0 and nothing in the news file for 3.1.1pre2 looks hopeful... In some filing systems it is possible to have symlinks which are themselves hard linked, i.e. have a li