On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 17:06 +0100, freisei wrote: > Matt McCutchen schrieb: > > On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 13:12 +0100, freisei wrote: > > >Is it possible to tell rsync to treat a device-target lika a file? > > > > Not currently. That's a separate feature from --copy-devices; it would > > be called --keep-devices, in analogy to --copy-dirlinks and > > --keep-dirlinks. > > > > > Oh, OK. > > i?ve done a look into the source, but my poor c abilities don?t allow to > do it myself. I think that there is anyone other to do it, i?ve found > another --keep-devices-post from 2006.
For the benefit of people reading the archives, that post is: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2006-March/015011.html > But, there would be another solution for me. > > If i could create batch-files in "revert-mode" i can change source and > destination. Rsync's design is thoroughly one-way. Making a "reverse" mode work would be many times more difficult than just implementing --keep-devices. > is there a wish-list for rsync to see how many users want to have which > feature? Feature requests are welcome in the bug database ( https://bugzilla.samba.org/ ), and we can get an idea of the amount of interest from "me-too" comments and CCs. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html