using rsync on raw device

[Matt McCutchen]

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 15:00 -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
> 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"

Use the --copy-devices option added by this patch:

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/patches/copy-devices.diff

Matt