rsync 3.1.1: --ignore-missing-args / --delete-missing args problem
Kevin Korb
kmk at sanitarium.net
Fri Apr 7 14:05:01 UTC 2017
Exit code 2 is "Protocol incompatibility".
Also, sounds like what you really want is --files-from
On 04/07/2017 10:01 AM, Axel Kittenberger via rsync wrote:
> With this two options on a very live system you may need to take into
> account this bug as well I reported a while ago:
>
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12569
>
> Due to this I'm currently not using --ignore-missing-args /
> --delete-missing but rather -exclude=* -include=- and a autocreated
> hierachical filter rule list on stdin.
>
> PS: Yes to simply ignore code 24 would be correct. However, it creates
> exit code 2 in these cases.
>
> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Georgy Fedorov via rsync
> <rsync at lists.samba.org <mailto:rsync at lists.samba.org>> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> We sometimes have to replicate large "live" filesystems with many (
> sometimes millions, up to few hundred millions ) files on them. (
> Copying actively used files is of course a bad idea, but it really
> helps to keep the delta small, so one final transfer can later save
> the day. )
>
> The problem, as one may guess, is that some files may disappear
> during the process, so rsync finishes with an error code 23.
> The good news is that since version 3.1.0 rsync has two options to
> address this problem: --ignore-missing-args and --delete-missing-args .
>
> The bad news, however, is that even with any of these, when the file
> disappears, rsync handles the file transfer properly, but then tries
> to set times or attributes on these files nevertheless. That fails
> with errno 22 ( EINVAL ) and still leads to exit code 23, which is a
> bit of an annoyance.
>
> I am currently trying to come up with a patch to address this issue,
> since I'd like to have exit code 0 for either of
> --ignore-missing-args or --delete-missing-args, when the files are,
> well, missing.
>
> Probably it is not the right way to address this problem, but in the
> same vein as --ignore-missing-args are implemented, the patch can go
> as follows:
> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/96ba8bf10f864a93fd9203f75c43ffe9
> <https://gist.github.com/anonymous/96ba8bf10f864a93fd9203f75c43ffe9> .
>
> Basically we need to do two changes:
>
> (1) in options.c, make sure that the "missing_args" value is
> transferred when set ; and
> (2) in rsync.c, in the "missing_args" case, replace FERROR_XFER with
> something else, since apparently any log message with logcode
> FERROR_XFER sets the flag 'got_xfer_error' in log.c, and that
> finally leads to exit code RERR_PARTIAL (23), which is what we are
> trying to avoid.
>
> I am currently testing this on fairly big datasets to see if there's
> something missing, and will write more when I see how it goes ( as I
> said, the data sets are fairly large ).
>
> There shall be a better way to address that, but this is all I can
> do with a very shallow acquaintance with rsync source code.
> Nevertheless, it would be great if that could be fixed in the trunk
> one way or another )
>
> Kind regards, George
>
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> Melbourne School of Engineering
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