https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3846
Summary: rsync silently transfers blocks of zero bytes on read
errors
Product: rsync
Version: 2.6.8
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: P3
Component: core
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ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
QAContact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
when rsync fails to read part of a file, it silently transfers blocks of zero
bytes instead of the actual data.
This renders rsync useless for most kinds of backup applications, because in
case of a hardware failure, all backups may be already destroyed by blocks of
zeros, and you have a hard time to figure out which files are intact (i.e.
should contain such blocks) and which are not (i.e. rsync introduced such
blocks), because there isn't even a information in any log.
I'd suggest to introduce an option --ignore-read-errors which exhibits the
current behaviour and fail on read-errors as per default.
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