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

2017-12-30 Thread just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via rsync
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12732 --- Comment #2 from devuran...@gmx.net --- There are a lot of bugreports related to rsync hanging mysteriously, some of which may be duplicates of each other: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1442 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?i

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

2017-04-05 Thread L. A. Walsh via rsync
Kevin Korb via rsync wrote: 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

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 i

Re: [Bug 12732] 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: Probably using different options? Can this be some sort of Heisenbug, nobody can reproduce? Do the two sequences of shell commands work for you as expected? Please note that both rsync commands in the mail generated by bugzilla are split

[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 a large "/home" p