<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Hello all,</div><div>I'm trying to copy a whole block device to another server.</div><div><br></div><div>My issue is that I'm not able to write to a block device.</div><div>The special file is overwritten by the normal file.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm using rsync 3.1.3 on both servers, and I tried some commands:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace" size="3">#rsync --bwlimit=100k -vvPz --copy-devices /dev/sdb <a href="mailto:root@10.144.162.85">root@10.144.162.85</a>:/dev/sdd</font></div><div><font face="monospace" size="3">#rsync --bwlimit=100k -vvPz --copy-devices --inplace /dev/sdb <a href="mailto:root@10.144.162.85">root@10.144.162.85</a>:/</font><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">dev/sdd</span></div><div><div><font face="monospace" size="3">#rsync --bwlimit=100k -vvPz --copy-devices --inplace --devices /dev/sdb <a href="mailto:root@10.144.162.85">root@10.144.162.85</a>:/</font><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">dev/sdd</span></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">None of the commands worked well for me.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></div><div><font face="monospace" size="3"><span class="-x-evo-signature" id="none"></span></font></div><div><font face="monospace" size="3"></font><br></div><div>Il giorno dom, 05/04/2020 alle 18.45 +0000, just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via rsync ha scritto:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11101"><pre>https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11101</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Wayne Davison <</pre><a href="mailto:wayne@opencoder.net"><pre>wayne@opencoder.net</pre></a><pre>> changed:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre> What |Removed |Added</pre><pre>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</pre><pre> Resolution|--- |FIXED</pre><pre> Status|NEW |RESOLVED</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>--- Comment #4 from Wayne Davison <</pre><a href="mailto:wayne@opencoder.net"><pre>wayne@opencoder.net</pre></a><pre>> ---</pre><pre>I've refined the old write-devices.diff from the patches repo and included it</pre><pre>for the upcoming release.</pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">I cannot use the --write-devices option</span></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">I cannot understand if the 3.1.3 contain the write-devices option or if I have to apply this patch.</span></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">Can someone help me understanding the problem?</span></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;">Regards</span></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"> Ambrogio</span></div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></body></html>