Re: Everything working as expected, so shouldn't ERROR be WARNING
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Paul Slootman via rsync wrote: On Thu 18 Jan 2024, Roger Price via rsync wrote: I get the messages sending incremental file list ERROR: daemon refused to receive file "rprice/demo.dvi" I understand that the remote daemon has refused file demo.dvi because I specifically requested that dvi files not be transferred. I choose that myself in a regular configuration file. So shouldn't it be a WARNING rather than an ERROR? I would expect to see In this case you're in control of both ends of the transfer, so you know that *.dvi files won't be transferred. However, it could be that this rsync command is being run by someone who expects rsync to do what they asked it to do, i.e. transfer the entire contents of .../rprice to the remote server, and the client rsync can't fulfil that request; hence the error. If you don't want *.dvi files to be transferred, then you should add --exclude '*.dvi' to the invocation. I accept that if the message has to cover all the cases, including hardware misconfigurations and errors, then ERROR is necessary. But it would have been nice to have a specific message for exclude = ... effect in remote rsyncd.conf even if the user has no direct access. Roger -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: Everything working as expected, so shouldn't ERROR be WARNING
On Thu 18 Jan 2024, Roger Price via rsync wrote: > I am backing up a user's directories from local machine titan to remote > machine maria. On the remote machine maria file /etc/rsyncd.conf contains > > [rprice-home] > ... > exclude = *.dvi > > I start the backup by using this command on the local machine titan: > > rprice@titan ~ rsync -av --dry-run /mnt/home/rprice > rsync://rprice@maria/rprice-home > > I get the messages > > sending incremental file list > ERROR: daemon refused to receive file "rprice/demo.dvi" > ... > > I understand that the remote daemon has refused file demo.dvi because I > specifically requested that dvi files not be transferred. I choose that > myself in a regular configuration file. So shouldn't it be a WARNING rather > than an ERROR? I would expect to see In this case you're in control of both ends of the transfer, so you know that *.dvi files won't be transferred. However, it could be that this rsync command is being run by someone who expects rsync to do what they asked it to do, i.e. transfer the entire contents of .../rprice to the remote server, and the client rsync can't fulfil that request; hence the error. If you don't want *.dvi files to be transferred, then you should add --exclude '*.dvi' to the invocation. Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Everything working as expected, so shouldn't ERROR be WARNING
I am backing up a user's directories from local machine titan to remote machine maria. On the remote machine maria file /etc/rsyncd.conf contains [rprice-home] ... exclude = *.dvi I start the backup by using this command on the local machine titan: rprice@titan ~ rsync -av --dry-run /mnt/home/rprice rsync://rprice@maria/rprice-home I get the messages sending incremental file list ERROR: daemon refused to receive file "rprice/demo.dvi" ... I understand that the remote daemon has refused file demo.dvi because I specifically requested that dvi files not be transferred. I choose that myself in a regular configuration file. So shouldn't it be a WARNING rather than an ERROR? I would expect to see WARNING: daemon refused to receive file "rprice/demo.dvi" Roger -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
