Hi,
I'm not sure if this is a bug, but after reading the manual, this does
not seem like expected behavior. I'm using the following rsync command
to approximate an atomic update (I can't use --link-dest as hard links
in hfsplus filesystems are fubar under linux as of 2.6.27):
rsync -a --delete-excluded --backup --backup-dir=../bar.archive
--backup-suffix=.2008-12-15-0115 --delete-delay --delay-updates
--partial-dir=.rsync-partial --verbose --human-readable
--log-file=/bar.rsync-log host:/foo/ /bar
If a transfer is interrupted, .rsync-partial/ directories are left over
in the backup directory, as expected. The next rsync run exits with
non-zero exit status even though all files are transferred (verified
this using md5sum). A third rsync run transfers nothing (going by the
log file) but exits with success. I'm guessing this is because: (1)
--delete-excluded causes the .rsync-partial/ directories to be marked
for deletion during file list generation time of the second rsync run
(there are no .rsync-partial/ directories in host:/foo/), (2) successful
transfer of all files during the second run results in rsync removing
the .rsync-partial/ directories as they become empty, and (3)
--delete-delay which I understand is necessary to allow rsync to use the
files in .rsync-partial/ to speed up the second transfer, fails to find
the .rsync-partial/ directories at the end of the transfer and
complains. The third transfer sees no .rsync-partial/ directories in
/bar and so returns success.
I would like the second run to return success if all files are
transferred. Is there some option I'm supposed to use (e.g. --filter)
or is this a bug?
Shiv
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