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2003 Aug 12
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two suggestions about backup
...mlink Any type Not created Device file Any type Not created Yes, these are rare cases, but I believe it's better to backup all kind of files. So I wrote the patch against nightly snapshot (rsync-HEAD-20020808-1120Z.tar.gz), and attached it as "rsync-2.5.6cvs-backupfix.patch". Additionally, this patch includes bug fix to correct the problem that FIFO files are sometimes backuped when src and dst files are the same. (rdev treatment problem) Second suggestion: How about adding now option "--backup-only" that means making backups only and don'...