Re: feature-wish: "--ignore-unrelated-errors" option

2005-08-24 Thread David Madore
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:52:55PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > If there's a directory which you know cannot be read and you don't wish > to change it, I'd suggest excluding it from the transfer with --exclude. That's what I'm doing so far; unfortunately, I'm using rsync to backup a Windows files

Re: feature-wish: "--ignore-unrelated-errors" option

2005-08-19 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:51:26AM +0200, David Madore wrote: > For example, if the source contains a directory foo/ which cannot be > read If there's a directory which you know cannot be read and you don't wish to change it, I'd suggest excluding it from the transfer with --exclude. ..wayne.. --

feature-wish: "--ignore-unrelated-errors" option

2005-08-19 Thread David Madore
Hi. I looked high and low for the following feature of rsync but it does not seem to be available, even though it would be really useful: --ignore-unrelated-errors. The semantics should be the following: when an I/O error is encountered while reading a directory foo/ (as far as I understand, rsyn