using rsync on raw device
George Georgalis
george at galis.org
Sun Mar 30 19:00:33 GMT 2008
Hi -- congratulations on the 3.0 release!
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"
sent 20 bytes received 69 bytes 178.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
The idea being I could use the rsync algorithm to
update /u0510a/rwd0d.img which I could deploy with the
dd comand to /dev/rwd0d on the target host. (a UFS
filesystem btw)
But it's obviously not happy treating a device as a
file. Is there some way around this, I don't see an
appropriate option in the man page.
Thanks!
// George
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George Georgalis, information system scientist <IXOYE><
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