sudo / --link-dest combination problem.

2005-06-17 Thread simon allfrey
Hi, using the attached script to implement an incremental rotating backup of my home directory works fine if I run it myself, however if it is run as root the -- link-dest fails and all files are recreated rather than linked to. Can someone explain the problem to me? I'm using rsync version

RE: rsync error: some files could not be transferred -- How to ignore

2005-06-17 Thread sanalkumar.siva
Thanks Wayne.. Your mail answered my query perfectly.. -sanal On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:49:54PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to ignore these errors when i do file transfer using rsync? What do you mean by ignore? They're just warnings, so rsync ignores them already for

Re: sudo / --link-dest combination problem.

2005-06-17 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:32:06AM -0700, simon allfrey wrote: works fine if I run it myself, however if it is run as root the -- link-dest fails and all files are recreated rather than linked to. For files to be hard-linked together, they must be exactly the same in all preserved attributes.

CVS update: rsync/support

2005-06-17 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Fri Jun 17 16:12:05 2005 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync/support In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv8247 Modified Files: cull_options Log Message: Improved some of the comments that are output into the perl code. Revisions: cull_options1.2 = 1.3

CVS update: rsync/support

2005-06-17 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Fri Jun 17 16:29:21 2005 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync/support In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv16712 Modified Files: cull_options Log Message: Another readability improvement in the perl code we output. Revisions: cull_options1.3 = 1.4

CVS update: rsync/support

2005-06-17 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Fri Jun 17 16:48:02 2005 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync/support In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv26570 Modified Files: rrsync Log Message: - Improved some comments (some taken from the new cull-options output). - Made the user-config sections easier to find. -

CVS update: rsync/support

2005-06-17 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Fri Jun 17 23:16:22 2005 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync/support In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv21139 Modified Files: cull_options Log Message: - Fixed a bug where the --*-dest options weren't being culled. - Simplified the output format by putting all the

CVS update: rsync/support

2005-06-17 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Fri Jun 17 23:23:00 2005 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync/support In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv26196 Modified Files: rrsync Log Message: Changed the code to use the single long-option hash from cull_options. Revisions: rrsync 1.9 = 1.10