incremental directory searche in rsync 3.0.6

[Jignesh Shah]

Okkkk... If I am not wrong then this behavior is same from older
rsync2.6.0 to latest rsync3.0.6.

Thanks.

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net>wrote:

> 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
>
>
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