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Hiya, I can see it's a regular subject on this list. I, like others wanted to use rsync to synchronise two block devices (as it happens one lvm volume and one nbd device served by qemu-img on a remote host from a qcow2 disk image so that I can keep the old versions) As I couldn't find any report of it being done successfully, I'm just sharing my findings as it might benefit others.

Hi, I'm running rsync-3.0.4 on my UNIX system. I've just updated from rsync-2.6.9. I'm facing a general problem with the execution of files during a transfer process. The situation: 2 Directories (dir1 and dir2) on one machine with a some files in dir1 which shall be translated to dir2. rsync does not correctly recognize dir1 and dir2 as directories. It tries to transfer dir1 as a