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...Trying rsync again quickly caused the buzzing problem again. In other words, a simple file copy was able to read the disk when rsync gave errors. Is that to be expected? Is there a way to make rsync more gentle on a fragile disk? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgdennis at btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK

...error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(543) [sender=3.0.7] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If this is not a known bug, then hopefully this information will be of use. regards Chris -- Chris Dennis cgdennis at btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK

...f2-x coming after f2. But for the directories, d2-x comes before d2. Is this a bug or a feature? (I'm running rsync 3.0.9 on 64-bit Arch Linux.) And more importantly, can I rely on the output staying the same in the future? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgdennis at btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK

I'm syncing from a USB disk to my hard disk like this: rsync -vr /path/to/usb/disk/dir/ /path/to/hard/disk/dir/ But the speedup is always 0.99 which I think means it is just copying the files each time instead of syncing them. What could be wrong? - Grant

...e disk. In other words I want to make dir2 a copy of dir1, with every file hard-linked to its counterpart in dir1. Why not just use cp? Because I want to be able to do it as a user who has sudo permission to run rsync but not cp. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgdennis at btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK

...with --hard-links and unreadable files Product: rsync Version: 3.0.7 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: P5 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: cgdennis at btinternet.com QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org I've stumbled across a fairly obscure situation in which rsync hangs -- it just waits until I press ctrl-C. Here's a transcript. Note that directory 'foo' contains two small files that are hard-linked together, and have...

...snap can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/StarsoftAnalysis/brandysnap where you can follow its development and read more details. Hopefully it will prove useful. I look forward to hearing comments and ideas. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgdennis at btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK