Re: [Bug 12732] hard links can cause rsync to block or to silently skip files

2017-04-05 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
Note that in all --*-dest options if the path is relative it is relative to the target dir not the "$PWD". I like to always use absolute paths because of this. But essentially, the command with the instances of $PWD vs without them the paths aren't the same. If you want all relative to . paths

Re: [Bug 12732] New: hard links can cause rsync to block or to silently skip files

2017-04-05 Thread Hansjoerg Lipp via rsync
Am 05.04.2017 um 22:05 schrieb L A Walsh via rsync: >I ran rsync 3.1.1 for over a year to help generate > snapshots. I can't say if it copied all the files or not, as > it was backing up a large "/home" partition, BUT, it never hung. > It did take 45min to a few hours to do the compare, but

[Bug 12732] hard links can cause rsync to block or to silently skip files

2017-04-05 Thread just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via rsync
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12732 --- Comment #1 from Hansjoerg Lipp --- Am 05.04.2017 um 22:05 schrieb L A Walsh via rsync: >I ran rsync 3.1.1 for over a year to help generate > snapshots. I can't say if it copied all the files or not, as > it was backing up

Re: [Bug 12732] New: hard links can cause rsync to block or to silently skip files

2017-04-05 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via rsync wrote: Hard link handling seems to be broken when using "rsync -aH --compare-dest". I found two possible scenarios: 1) rsync completes without error message and exit code 0, although some files are missing from the backup 2) rsync blocks and

Transfer hangs, both sides waiting on receive

2017-04-05 Thread Apollon Oikonomopoulos via rsync
Hi, We're encountering a rather weird, sporadic hang during a large-file transfer. A bit of background on the setup: - Host A rsyncs a MySQL database from Host B. Both sides use rsync 3.1.1 on Debian Jessie. - Host B serves the files using rsync --daemon from an ext4 filesystem