hi ! First of all cangratulation for rsync, which I use as our main backup tool in our banking company (ACM). I am trying to also use rsync to deduplicate files. example: cd / cp -a /bin /bin3 rm -v /bin3/z* /bin/bas* #now we will use rsync to build a folder with all files from /bin that are missing or different in /bin3, using --compare-dest rm -r /bin.tmp -r; rsync --recursive --links --group --owner --devices --numeric-ids --delete --delete-excluded --one-file-system --compare-dest="../bin3" --hard-links --perms --times --size-only "/bin/." "/bin.tmp" -vv --stats | less #this hangs! 1) on version 2.6.9 it worked more or less: missing files in bin3 were copied from bin to bin.tmp except 'zcat' because it was a hardlink to 'gunzip', which is not missing in bin3. on version 3.0.3 and 3.0.7 it just hangs 2) secondly and unfortunately, removing the --hard-links option is also making trouble in 3.0.3 and 3.0.7: it does not hang anymore but it sadly copy all symlinks, even those that are present in bin3. on 2.6.9, removing --hard-links option was working correctly and copying ONLY the missing symlinks. Thank you for your time. Francois Scheurer francois@ac-markets.com Head of Infratructure Advanced Currency Markets SA
sorry i meant 'congratulations'
i made errors in typing in my example: (bin3 instead of bin) cd / cp -a /bin /bin3 rm -v /bin3/z* /bin3/bas* Because I cannot edit the bug I will mark it as INVALID and retry