patches in distros - include upstream ?

2013-02-02 Thread devzero
Hello, i have found, that major distros (especially opensuse) ship their rsync packages with a lot of patches which i don`t find in the official rsync-patches git. Maybe there is a reason for that or i missed something or looked wrong, but for convenience/transparency i have compiled a list

Re: Does rsync need a --ignore-unreadable-files option?

2013-02-02 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:08:13 +0100 Allen Supynuk wrote: To make matters worse, the file is on a read-only snapshot mounted through NFS. In any case root squash is in effect, so super-user is out. Why not mounting this no_root_squash? Is it not wrong to have partial archives (missing

[Bug 8847] detect-renamed.diff update to ensure existence of directory for partial-dir

2013-02-02 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8847 --- Comment #2 from Russell Black black.russ...@gmail.com 2013-02-02 22:59:17 UTC --- If it helps to evaluate the patch, here is the difference in the code between this one and the regular detect-renamed patch. Seems pretty straightforward. $

Re: Does rsync need a --ignore-unreadable-files option?

2013-02-02 Thread Allen Supynuk
It also means running the backups as root. Running as root in a root squash environment is risky. In my case the (read-only snapshot of the) source is considered broken if there are unreadable files, so I have no grounds for a security exception. I want the option to have the backup complete

rsync 3.0.9 compile --copy-devices --write-devices not working

2013-02-02 Thread Oliver Dzombic
Hi Folks, i recently try to use rsync on devices. The goal is to sync two logical volumes without copy the whole. According to http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=rsync-patches.git;a=tree write-devices.diff copy-devices.diff should do the job. I downloaded