<div class="gmail_quote">We've been using RSYNC to back things up and it's sick nasty wicked awesome. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Recently we migrated our receiving server to a different machine (Debian lenny) and now we're running into this DROP-CACHE: UNKNOWN OPTION error:<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#CC0000">sender-machine$</font> <b>rsync -Cvaz -e ssh --delete --exclude blah/ --exclude yadda/ . user@receiver:/path/for/drop</b><br>rsync: on remote machine: --drop-cache: unknown option</div>
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rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1441) [server=3.0.3]<br>
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]<br>
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7]<br>
</div><br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#CC0000">sender-machine$</font> <b>rsync --version</b></div><div>rsync version 3.0.7 protocol version 30<br>Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.</div>
<div>Web site: <a href="http://rsync.samba.org/">http://rsync.samba.org/</a></div><div>Capabilities:</div><div> 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,</div><div> socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,</div>
<div> append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, no symtimes, A2</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#009900">receiver-machine$</font> <b>rsync --version</b></div><div><div>rsync version 3.0.3 protocol version 30</div>
<div>Copyright (C) 1996-2008 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.</div><div>Web site: <a href="http://rsync.samba.org/">http://rsync.samba.org/</a></div><div>Capabilities:</div><div> 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,</div>
<div> socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,</div><div> append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes</div></div><div><br></div><meta charset="utf-8"><div>The manpage for 3.0.7 (sender) talks about --drop-cache, but for 3.0.3 (receiver) it does not.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there a way to tell rsync to not use the 3.0.7-version-specific setting? Or, is there an /etc/apt/sources.list entry that would get us a more modern rsync?</div><div><br></div>-- <br>will trillich -- <a href="http://faq.serensoft.com/" target="_blank">http://faq.serensoft.com/</a><br>
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