backup option

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Thu Apr 7 07:12:45 GMT 2005


On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:42:19PM -0400, Chimento, Douglas wrote:
> 	I have question about the behavior of --backup-dir with
> --delete-after option.

You've discovered a bug in generator.c.  It is fixed by this patch:

--- generator.c	5 Apr 2005 20:08:51 -0000	1.198
+++ generator.c	7 Apr 2005 08:07:10 -0000
@@ -1132,6 +1132,7 @@ void generate_files(int f_out, struct fi
 	int save_only_existing = only_existing;
 	int save_opt_ignore_existing = opt_ignore_existing;
 	int save_do_progress = do_progress;
+	int save_make_backups = make_backups;
 
 	allowed_lull = read_batch ? 0 : (io_timeout + 1) / 2;
 	lull_mod = allowed_lull * 5;
@@ -1240,6 +1241,7 @@ void generate_files(int f_out, struct fi
 	phase++;
 	only_existing = save_only_existing;
 	opt_ignore_existing = save_opt_ignore_existing;
+	make_backups = save_make_backups;
 
 	if (verbose > 2)
 		rprintf(FINFO,"generate_files phase=%d\n",phase);

Thanks for the report,

..wayne..


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