Bug 429462 – net-misc/rsync - add --copy-devices support

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Adriano Meirelles 2012-08-02 09:48:27 UTC]

A very userful rsync patch is missing. The --copy-devices patch, which can copy raw device contents over the wire (like for backup whole hard drives), the opposite of --devices.

No other application on portage tree can do that straightforward.

The patch (already in Fedora since 2009): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494313

More users asking for that: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-915254-view-previous.html

Thanks! :)

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Adriano Meirelles 2012-08-02 10:03:04 UTC]

Created attachment 320028 [details, diff]
Patch for rsync 3.0.9

The easier patch shortcut (clean).

More handsome rsync patches here:

http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/rsync/src/rsync-patches-3.0.9.tar.gz

[Comment 2 Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2015-06-07 08:25:54 UTC]

+1000

verified working. definitely recommended to add.

[Comment 3 Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2015-06-07 08:31:56 UTC]

Patch needs s/a\//a\/rsync-3.1.1\//g and same for b/. Not sure if there's a Gentoo way for oneshot application of a patch that diffs just a/file.c

[Comment 4 insurgo 2019-12-03 03:09:58 UTC]

Is there any blocker moving this forward?

[Comment 5 insurgo 2019-12-03 03:10:52 UTC]

Note that write-devices patch would also be needed to do the reverse.

[Comment 6 into-the-trash-it-goes 2021-08-20 16:12:12 UTC]

(In reply to insurgo from comment #5)
> Note that write-devices patch would also be needed to do the reverse.

Since you posted this, support for the --write-devices option was added by version 3.2.0. Unfortunately, support for --copy-devices remains as a separate patch.