On 1/10/23 03:49, Abhishek Chakravarti wrote:
OpenBSD newbie here. While trying to backup my OpenBSD configs to my Arch Linux box, I noted a discrepancy between the openrsync(1) manpage examples and what I encountered. The steps to reproduce are as follows: ``` $ uname -a OpenBSD oberon.taranjali.org 7.2 GENERIC.MP#758 amd64 $ touch foo bar $ rsync -av foo bar abhishek@192.168.1.3:/home/abhishek ksh: rsync: not found $ openrsync -av foo bar abhishek@192.168.1.3:/home/abhishek Enter passphrase for key '/home/abhishek/.ssh/id_ed25519': Transfer starting: 2 files bar foo Transfer complete: 56 B sent, 187 B read, 0 B file size ``` The EXAMPLES section for the openrsync(1) specifically mention rsync and not openrsync. I did find an earlier thread related to this issue: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=162123821229046&w=2 The suggestion from that thread seems to be to use the rsync package instead of openrsync. Is this still the case? And if not, shouldn't the openrsync(1) manpage examples invoke openrsync instead of rsync? Thank you for your time and consideration.
I'm a big fan of rsync, and was really excited by openrsync being built into OpenBSD, but so far, it hasn't done the jobs I need it to do :-/ A few things that cause me trouble are the lack of a -H (preserve hard links -- I bet that's ugly to code), -W (disable the delta-transfer "feature". Yes, I know it was The Reason for rsync, but in my experience, it takes longer to do the delta transfers than to just send the whole bloomin' file for the vast majority of my usage. And I don't mean 5% longer -- I'm talking 400% longer sometimes. And maybe worse...unpredictable), and I'm a big fan and user of --link-dest. But ... if it does what you want, absolutely, give it a spin. If it doesn't...either install the package or grab the source code to openrsync, add what you need and submit it. :) I think there was some talk about ultimately naming it rsync, but unless it is 100% feature compatible (and I'm not sure I'd consider that a good thing), that will cause confusion in my world. Nick.
