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hello, I'm new with rsync (shame on me ignoring this great tool for many years!) For the following question I could not get an answer from the docs: Is it possible to run rsync in a force mode like `cp -f? for overwriting files without write permission? I need this for a local rsync. What I'm actually doing is to run `find . -type f -perm u-w -exec chmod u+w {} \;? on the destination

Here is the structure of my servers : Source : /home/test1/link_dir sub_dir1 file1 file2 ... sub_dir2 ... Destination: /home/test2/real_dir sub_dir1 file1 file2 ... subdir2

Hi, I got stuck within some weird prob concerning my 2-node linux cluster and the synchronisation tool at hand (rsync-2.5.1pre1). I have to copy a structure of 70 directories where the data of these directories are hardlinked to the data of the 1st directory. Within this "orig data" directory, I have about 30.000 files, so the amount of files to sync is approx. 2.100.000. The

...ink the problem is the embedded colon in the path. Administrator@USB-FLATUS ~ $ touch abc:def Administrator@USB-FLATUS ~ $ ls -l abc* -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 0 Aug 27 12:34 abc Administrator@USB-FLATUS ~ $ rm abc:def Administrator@USB-FLATUS ~ $ tar -tvf /n/a.tar -rw-r--r-- tconway/Vlsieng 29 2002-08-27 12:32:28 abc:def Administrator@USB-FLATUS ~ $ tar -xvf /n/a.tar abc:def Administrator@USB-FLATUS ~ $ ls -l abc* -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 0 Aug 27 12:32 abc Administrator@USB-FLATUS ~ $ rm abc* Administrator@USB-FLATUS ~ $ It exists fine on the unix side, but when it&...