Fwd: Re: using rsync on raw device

[George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>]

Hi!

I'm not sure what happened with rsync 3.0.0 in wip,
but in any event I was hoping this patch could get
in the pipeline?

// George


----- Forwarded message from Matt McCutchen <matt%mattmccutchen.net@localhost> 
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Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:20:59 -0400
Message-Id: <1206904860.2276.0.camel@localhost>
From: Matt McCutchen <matt%mattmccutchen.net@localhost>
To: George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>
Cc: rsync%lists.samba.org@localhost
Subject: Re: using rsync on raw device

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 15:00 -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
> I'm trying to use rsync to manage a raw disk image file.
> 
> rsync --checksum --perms --owner --group --sparse --partial --progress \
>       192.168.80.189:/dev/rwd0d /u0510a/rwd0d.img
> skipping non-regular file "rwd0d"

Use the --copy-devices option added by this patch:

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/patches/copy-devices.diff

Matt


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George Georgalis, information system scientist <IXOYE><

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