Hello,
I'm setting up a system for automated synchronization and backup between
different macs (OS X Lion 10.7). I use HFS+ Journaled as filesystem.
I wanted to follow these guidelines:
http://www.bombich.com/rsync.html
but I gave a look inside the patches Mr. Bombich suggested and I thought I could
try first by using only the normal ones provided by rsync.samba.org, so I
skipped
curl -o patches/hfs_compression.diff
http://www.bombich.com/software/opensource/rsync_3.0.7-hfs_compression_20100701.diff
curl -o patches/crtimes-64bit.diff
https://attachments.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=5288
curl -o patches/crtimes-hfs+.diff
https://attachments.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=5966
and I used only
patch -p1 <patches/fileflags.diff
patch -p1 <patches/crtimes.diff
plus the stock one instead of the custom one:
patch -p1 <patches/hfs-compression.diff
I checked the resulting binary with the improved backup bouncer test suite
http://www.bombich.com/groups/ccc/wiki/7ba51/Improvements_to_Backup_Bouncer.html
and it passes all the tests except the one with the hard links, so I think my
choice was more or less correct: the crtimes and hfs_compression patches
suggested seem not to be required with 3.0.9.
Concerning the hard links error, however, I don't know what to do, since
I'm not good enough with programming to tinker with the rsync internals.
More specifically, backup bouncer test suite performs these actions:
echo "testing 1 2 3" > some-file
ln ./some-file link1
ln ./some-file link2
ln ./link1 link3
touch locked_link_source
ln locked_link_source locked_link_target
chflags uchg locked_link_source
My rsync binary fails to copy the "locked_link_source" file, all the
others are fine. The error I get is:
rsync: link
"/Volumes/Dst/20-rsync-309-patches/20-hardlinks/locked_link_source"
=> 20-hardlinks/locked_link_target failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code
23) at main.c(1122) [sender=3.0.9]
Needless to say, I was running rsync as root.
Could someone please help me solving this issue? I looked in the archives but
what I found concerning the error 23 doesn't seem to apply to my case.
Regards,
Olaf Marzocchi
