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...rvish.org) to create daily backup on disk images. dirvish is using rsync with --link-dest pointing to the last good image. This creates images with hardlinks to unmodified files. So far so good. Now I want to create a "current" filetree with hardlinks pointing to the last image. rsync -vaH --delete --stats --numeric-ids -x --link-dest=/path/to/lastimg /path/to/lastimg /path/to/current This works except when an existing file has been modified and is now "new" (and not the n'th hardlink) in the image. This file is copied to the "current" directory. A hardlink p...

Hi! I am running rsync 2.6.4 (on Debian sarge) and I am experiencing a strange behaviour. I am trying to create an identical filetree on the same filesystems with the single files being hardlinks to the source like this: rsync -vaH --progress --delete --stats --numeric-ids -x --link-dest=/path/to/filetree/ /path/to/filetree/ /path/to/current/ /path/to is one filesystem. This creates hardlinks for the files in /path/to/filetree/ in /path/to/current/ When calling rsync with relative paths like this: cd /path/to; rsync -vaH -...

Hello, I have written a little script that's would email me all errors. rsync -vah --delete --stats <sources> <destination> > /var/log/sauvegarde/listoffile.log 2> /var/log/sauvegarde/errors.log My problem is i want to have the stats in my mail. Is it possible to redirect --stats to STDERR. I have tryed to do this : /--- rsync-2.6....

Is it normal for rsync to take 3 hours on this transfer? Number of files: 27419348 Number of files transferred: 19501 Total file size: 185.39G bytes Total transferred file size: 195.92M bytes Literal data: 195.68M bytes Matched data: 241.09K bytes File list size: 402.01M File list generation time: 0.561 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 600.61M Total bytes received:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3485 Summary: rsync uses more space in destination even with -S specified Product: rsync Version: 2.6.6 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org

Hi All, I was hoping to pick someone''s brain about the best way of moving a Xen disk image (which has LVM''s inside of it) to a new block-device?  I have the target DRBD device ready but unsure what''s the best &amp; safest way to do it. I was actually tempted to mount the Xen disk image in a dom0, and make it visible via loop devices and promote that DRBD node for