i read the archived post at:
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-October/004986.html
and was wondering whether this is documented/discussed elsewhere. i have
had two such occurences myself recently, where rsync completed
successfully, but the files don't get sync-ed (the target file
our daily backup is done using the rdiff-backup tool, which in turn
utilizes rsync/librsync to do the actual mirroring work.
a few days ago we did a refactoring and renamed a bunch of directories.
for backward compatibility we maintain the old names by symlinking it to
the new names. so, for ex
nope, --delete-after didn't seem to resolve the problem. what's needed
is apparently for rsync to do an "rm -r oldname1" instead of "rmdir
oldname1".
Eric Whiting wrote:
I have observed this same problem. Are you running --delete-after? I
assumed it might be relat
just to correct myself: this has nothing to do with rdiff-backup (which
uses *rdiff*, not rsync). local backups with the rdiff-backup tool are
fine. the problem is with rsync, when we are trying to mirror the local
backups to another machine using rsync.
David Garamond wrote:
our daily backup
John Van Essen wrote:
Dave,
What you need is the --force option. It's not obvious from the
all-too-generic name, but that will do the trick.
To the rsync maintainers - this is somewhat of an FAQ. Perhaps
the error message could also say '(see the --force option)' to
help users discover the sol
Dave Dykstra wrote:
Could you please post your full command line and say where in the directory
structure the directories were replaced by symlinks? I have not yet been
able to come up with an example where --force makes a difference when
using --delete and -r (or -a). Refer to
http://lists.
has someone come up with a trick to let disconnected ssh connections be
recovered without terminating and having to restart rsync (perhaps by
wrapping ssh or something)?
i have a very large (but pretty stable/unchanging) tree of files that i
need to sync daily, at night, between two geographica
has someone come up with a trick to let disconnected ssh connections be
recovered without terminating and having to restart rsync (perhaps by
wrapping ssh or something)?
i have a very large (but pretty stable/unchanging) tree of files that i
need to sync daily, at night, between two geographically
Paul Haas wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, David Garamond wrote [twice!]:
i'm really sorry about that. i didn't receive my own post today so i
admit i acted in haste.
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dave
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