Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

Sherin A sherinmon at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 04:39:46 MDT 2013


On Tuesday 13 August 2013 10:24 PM, Justin T Pryzby wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:10:04PM +0530, Sherin A wrote:
>> I am  doing rsync from  root at 10.0.0.10/home/foo  to
>> storageuser at 10.0.0.20/home/storageuser/dailybackup/foo  over ssh (no
>> role for -H)
> Why not rsync from root to root?  Or use the rsync protocol (not over
> ssh).  Note that you can use -H with ssh just as well; running "over
> ssh" just launches a pipe to rsync command over an ssh connection,
> rather than connecting to an rsync daemon listening over socket.
>
>> PS : if any one interested in making a patch with an additional
>> option for rsync for  excluding hardlinks with   -links +1 links ,
>> please help me , it is easy to  check the file  with an lstat / stat
>> system call. Or  is it possible to get a developer documentation for
>> rsync with the detailed info ?
> You could do that with --exclude, but first, think about the
> implications of that.  Your users could make hardlinks to system
> files and those owned by other users files (which they can stat) and
> that would cause rsync to avoid backing up those files (by either
> name, since link count is shared between all links, of course).
>
> Justin
Any further  information related with this  ?

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