[Tfug] rsync question (solved)

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:51:45AM -0700, Nate wrote:
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>Ahh.. then you have a genuine head scratcher.  Yay for rsync! =P
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>Nate

Finally figured out what was going wrong...  :)

My snapshot scripts allow users to put a file in $HOME to specify extra things
they would like included in the snapshots.  After a user cleaned up a bunch of
his files some of these paths weren't valid anymore.  The confusion came
because more than one user had specified some of another user's files to
backup (collaborative stuff).

In retrospect, it makes more sense now.  Of course rsync would complain when
told to explicitly copy something which isn't there as opposed to some random
broken link it might come across during its own recursion.

I suppose I could make the scripts a little more intelligent and do some basic
sanity checking on the extra include files, but at least now I know where
these particular messages are coming from.


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