incremental directory searche in rsync 3.0.6

[Matt McCutchen]

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:19 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote:
> Thanks Matt, does that means, in incremental recursion (to create the
> missin dirs), --implied-dirs/--no-implied-dirs has no importance?

It is incremental recursion that has no importance.  You'll get the same
result with or without incremental recursion, though the steps may be
done in a different order.

The missing directories will be /created/ regardless of the
--implied-dirs setting.  The difference is that with --implied-dirs,
their attributes will be copied from the corresponding source dirs
according to your options (-tpog, etc.), while without --implied-dirs,
rsync will not set their attributes.

-- 
Matt

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