Going to upgrad rsync V2.6.7 to V3.0.5

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:50:40PM +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote:
> I am wondering if we upgrade rsync 3.0.5 then will it cause any
> unexpected behaviour then rsync 2.6.7?

Probably not, but not knowing how you rsync rsync, one can't say for
sure.  You can read through the various news files, looking for things
that may affect you:

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.8-NEWS
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.9-NEWS
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.0-NEWS
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.1-NEWS
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.2-NEWS
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.3-NEWS
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.4-NEWS
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.5-NEWS
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.6-NEWS

There is a "NOTABLE CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR" section in 2 of those files
(3.0.0 and 3.0.1).

If you run into any problems, you can always try a quick-fix of using
either the --no-inc-recursive (--no-i-r) option (which turns off the
new, fancy incremental recursion scanning), or the --protocol=29 option
(which reverts back to the protocol that 2.6.7 used, which will also
disable incremental recursion in addition to several other changes).
Most folks are not having problems with the latest rsync, but there are
always bugs lying around waiting for less-used use-cases to expose them.

I certainly recommend the 3.0.x series over the 2.6.x series.

> Also I could see so many bug fixes after rsync 3.0.5 release. Do I
> have to patch all the bug fixes or its fine if I use only rsync 3.0.5?

I'd suggest you go with the just-released 3.0.6, personally.  :-)

..wayne..