I seem to be running into a problem where I am trying to rsync from a
source directory that lacks write permissions (i.e. r-xr-xr-x).
Presumably this is because rsync creates the directory on the
destination, then sets the permissions to match the source and then
tries to sync the contents of the d
So, like a lot of people, I am using --link-dest to do backups. My
backup target is ext4 so with a hard link limit of 64K. I do end up
with trying to create too many links at some point though and get the
following sequence of events:
rsync: link
"/.snapshots/hourly.0/linux/usr/src/openwrt-r186
On 12-01-20 06:01 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
> Someone has requested it:
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7870
I'm not really sure that is the same bug. Maybe it is. Not convinced
though. I guess I can file my own bug and ask 7870's OP to see if it's
the same issue.
> But is seems like
On 12-01-20 05:42 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
> Am I understanding right that your source and your link-dest are
> actually the same path?
Yes they are!
> If so what are you trying to do that wouldn't
> be accomplished with a simple 'cp -l'?
Not all of the files in source and dest are supposed to be t
Using:
# rsync --version
rsync version 3.0.7 protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6,
