rsync operation times out on excluded directory

[Matt McCutchen]

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:57 +0200, Rob klein Gunnewiek wrote:
> The problem was that I was copying /home (rsync server:/home ...), and the
> exclude path needed to be relative to this. Newbie mistake :). So, now it works,
> using: --exclude=username/mnt (instead of --exclude=/home/username/mnt). Now
> you're probably saying 'duh' ;-)

--exclude=/username/mnt would be more correct, as --exclude=username/mnt
will match any file anywhere inside /home whose path ends in
username/mnt .

> However, I wonder why the error I am getting is: rsync: readlink
> "/home/username/mnt/dev". Why would it try calling 'readlink' on the directory?

It looks like the error message is not completely accurate: a stat
failure will also be reported as "readlink failed".  The message should
probably say "readlink_stat failed".

Matt
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/attachments/20080809/b2f51138/attachment.bin