rsync - Dec 2004 - possible bug with --files-from and --no-relative options

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On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:46:48PM +1100, aaron.duncan@centrelink.gov.au
wrote:
> if it is indeed a bug, then hopefully it may raise it to someone's
> attention for fixing in a future release.
Good catch!  Rsync needs to send the --no-relative option to the remote
rsync when it has sent the --files-from option (it avoids doing that
when --files-from was not sent to the other side because it allows a
sender to send a files-from-generated list to an older rsync version).

I've just checked-in a fix for this into the CVS version.  I'll also
attach the patch, which should be easy to apply to 2.6.3 or earlier
(though I didn't check to see if it applies cleanly to older versions).

Thanks for the very complete bug report!  It made it a snap to figure
out what was wrong and fix it.

..wayne..
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--- options.c	8 Dec 2004 17:29:54 -0000	1.191
+++ options.c	22 Dec 2004 09:08:17 -0000
@@ -1236,6 +1236,8 @@ void server_options(char **args,int *arg
 			args[ac++] = "--files-from=-";
 			args[ac++] = "--from0";
 		}
+		if (!relative_paths)
+			args[ac++] = "--no-relative";
 	}
 
 	*argc = ac;

Hi,

Scenario:
  we have a backup server which backup the data from some set of remote
machine. Accidently we have deleted the backup directory and in remote
machine more than 1 year data is available. We are only intrested in one
month data rather transfering all the datas. ( may be transfer the data
from remote machine which are created after time t1.)


Regards,
Bala