Exit code 2 is "Protocol incompatibility". Also, sounds like what you really want is --files-from
On 04/07/2017 10:01 AM, Axel Kittenberger via rsync wrote: > With this two options on a very live system you may need to take into > account this bug as well I reported a while ago: > > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12569 > > Due to this I'm currently not using --ignore-missing-args / > --delete-missing but rather -exclude=* -include=- and a autocreated > hierachical filter rule list on stdin. > > PS: Yes to simply ignore code 24 would be correct. However, it creates > exit code 2 in these cases. > > On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Georgy Fedorov via rsync > <rsync@lists.samba.org <mailto:rsync@lists.samba.org>> wrote: > > Dear All, > > We sometimes have to replicate large "live" filesystems with many ( > sometimes millions, up to few hundred millions ) files on them. ( > Copying actively used files is of course a bad idea, but it really > helps to keep the delta small, so one final transfer can later save > the day. ) > > The problem, as one may guess, is that some files may disappear > during the process, so rsync finishes with an error code 23. > The good news is that since version 3.1.0 rsync has two options to > address this problem: --ignore-missing-args and --delete-missing-args . > > The bad news, however, is that even with any of these, when the file > disappears, rsync handles the file transfer properly, but then tries > to set times or attributes on these files nevertheless. That fails > with errno 22 ( EINVAL ) and still leads to exit code 23, which is a > bit of an annoyance. > > I am currently trying to come up with a patch to address this issue, > since I'd like to have exit code 0 for either of > --ignore-missing-args or --delete-missing-args, when the files are, > well, missing. > > Probably it is not the right way to address this problem, but in the > same vein as --ignore-missing-args are implemented, the patch can go > as follows: > https://gist.github.com/anonymous/96ba8bf10f864a93fd9203f75c43ffe9 > <https://gist.github.com/anonymous/96ba8bf10f864a93fd9203f75c43ffe9> . > > Basically we need to do two changes: > > (1) in options.c, make sure that the "missing_args" value is > transferred when set ; and > (2) in rsync.c, in the "missing_args" case, replace FERROR_XFER with > something else, since apparently any log message with logcode > FERROR_XFER sets the flag 'got_xfer_error' in log.c, and that > finally leads to exit code RERR_PARTIAL (23), which is what we are > trying to avoid. > > I am currently testing this on fairly big datasets to see if there's > something missing, and will write more when I see how it goes ( as I > said, the data sets are fairly large ). > > There shall be a better way to address that, but this is all I can > do with a very shallow acquaintance with rsync source code. > Nevertheless, it would be great if that could be fixed in the trunk > one way or another ) > > Kind regards, George > > -- > George Fedorov > Senior Systems Specialist > Melbourne School of Engineering > The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia > phone: ***** > email: ***** > http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/ > > > -- > 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 > <https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync> > Before posting, read: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> > > > > -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,
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