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Greetings ! how to disable ssh password for rysnc without generating ssh keys, - then i tried using "--password-file" option but it is not picking password from "password" file

Hi, I detected a silly behaviour of rsync when new hardlinks of already synced files are created: Scenario: There are a local directory and a equal remote directory created by former run of rsync. Create a hardlink from a already existing file (both inside the local directory). If this hardlink has a filename with comes before the original filename when both are sorted in alphabetic order,

Hi list, I often save the content of a hardware device (a harddisk partition with a not-so-stable non-unix OS on it) on a backup disk which is connected over the network. Until now I used 'dd' to make a clone file of the device (dd if=/dev/hda2 of=disk.raw bs=2M) and then I copied or rsynced this file with the network copy. It would be nice if rsync would also be able to synchronise the