Re: rsync replacing symlinks without warning (resend)

2024-02-09 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
I'm not really blaming the user. If it were up to me, -v would include -i. On 2/9/24 05:36, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 7:20 PM Kevin Korb via rsync wrote: rsync's -v is fairly useless. Learn to use -i instead or in addition to. Well, note that I didn't say anything

Re: rsync replacing symlinks without warning (resend)

2024-02-09 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher via rsync
On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 7:20 PM Kevin Korb via rsync wrote: > rsync's -v is fairly useless. Learn to use -i instead or in addition to. Well, note that I didn't say anything about the lib/ directory in that command; it's just that rsync decided to remove the symlink component from the path

[Bug 2294] Detect renamed files and handle by renaming instead of delete/re-send

2024-02-09 Thread just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via rsync
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2294 --- Comment #39 from andy --- > This feature request is so old it has lost relavence because btrfs/zfs/etc > are more optimal backup solutions than rsync. Funny I am doing exactly this, but I came to rsync looking for a backup for when ZFS fails.