rsync - Mar 2008 - using rsync on raw device

Hi -- congratulations on the 3.0 release!

I'm trying to use rsync to manage a raw disk image file.

rsync --checksum --perms --owner --group --sparse --partial --progress \
	192.168.80.189:/dev/rwd0d /u0510a/rwd0d.img
skipping non-regular file "rwd0d"

sent 20 bytes  received 69 bytes  178.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00


rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
              inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums


The idea being I could use the rsync algorithm to
update /u0510a/rwd0d.img which I could deploy with the
dd comand to /dev/rwd0d on the target host. (a UFS
filesystem btw)

But it's obviously not happy treating a device as a
file.  Is there some way around this, I don't see an
appropriate option in the man page.

Thanks!
// George


-- 
George Georgalis, information system scientist <IXOYE><

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 15:00 -0400, George Georgalis
wrote:
> I'm trying to use rsync to manage a raw disk image file.
> 
> rsync --checksum --perms --owner --group --sparse --partial --progress \
> 	192.168.80.189:/dev/rwd0d /u0510a/rwd0d.img
> skipping non-regular file "rwd0d"
Use the --copy-devices option added by this patch:

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/patches/copy-devices.diff

Matt