incremental directory searche in rsync 3.0.6

[Jignesh Shah]

Thanks Matt, does that means, in incremental recursion (to create the missin
dirs), --implied-dirs/--no-implied-dirs has no importance?

Jignesh.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net>wrote:

>  On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 10:58 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote:
> > I was in under impression that rsync 3.0.5/3.0.6 creates all the
> > missing directories in the path but I think I am wrong. Could any one
> > tell me is it possible to create all missing dirs in path at
> > destination side if not exists. Currently, I have been getting below
> > errors.
> >
> > rsync -avz  /tmp/mytest/rsync-test/dir-test/parent-dir/
> > desthost:/tmp/mytest/rsync-test/dir-test/parent-dir/
> > sending incremental file list
> > rsync: mkdir "/tmp/mytest/rsync-test/dir-test/parent-dir/" failed: No
> > such file or directory (2)
> > rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(576)
> > [receiver=3.0.6]
> > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9 bytes received so far)
> > [sender]
> > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> > io.c(600) [sender=3.0.6]
> >
> > I want rsync to create "/mytest/rsync-test/dir-test/parent-dir/"
> > directory heirarchy at destination. I also tried with --relative and
> > --no-implied-dirs/--implied-dirs but no luck.
>
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4621#c3
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-October/018993.html
>
> Rsync does not create parents of the specified destination directory.
> You can instead move to a higher destination directory and use
> --relative to place the files appropriately under it, and rsync will
> create intervening directories as necessary:
>
> rsync -avz --relative /tmp/mytest/rsync-test/dir-test/parent-dir/
> desthost:/
>
> The behavior here is the same regardless of incremental recursion.
>
> --
> Matt
>
>
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