rsync - Dec 2005 - [Bug 3326] New: rsync with local --files-from and remote source

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3326

           Summary: rsync with local --files-from and remote source
           Product: rsync
           Version: 2.6.6
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: AIX
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org
        ReportedBy: john.buxton@eu.sony.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org


I''m trying to copy files from a remote source to the local system, but
using
a local list of files. This fails because it seems that rsync is insisting the
file list must also be remote.

# ./rsync -n  --files-from=/tmp/files remotehost:/ /tmp/    

rsync: on remote machine: --files-from=-: unknown option
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(994)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(434)

The reason I want to do this is so that I can control file distributions from a
central "golden host" (which can ssh or rsh everywhere).


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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3326


wayned@samba.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID




------- Comment #1 from wayned@samba.org  2005-12-14 12:17 MST -------
This error:

rsync: on remote machine: --files-from=-: unknown option

is telling you that the remote rsync doesn''t know about the
--files-from
option, so it needs to be upgraded for you to be able to pull files from it
using --files-from.  (This is because the sender needs to be told that it is
getting a file list in addition to the command-line args, and when
you''re
pulling files, the sender is the remote system.)


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