incremental directory searche in rsync 3.0.6

[Matt McCutchen]

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:49 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote:
> Okkkk... If I am not wrong then this behavior is same from older
> rsync2.6.0 to latest rsync3.0.6.

That's correct.

-- 
Matt

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