Package: rsync
Version: 3.1.3-6
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I am trying to rsync individually named multiple files using the rsync daemon.
In the ADVANCED USAGE section, the manual page says
The syntax for requesting multiple files from a remote host is done by
specifying additional remote-host args in the same style as the first,
or with the hostname omitted. For instance, all these work:
rsync -av host:file1 :file2 host:file{3,4} /dest/
rsync -av host::modname/file{1,2} host::modname/file3 /dest/
rsync -av host::modname/file1 ::modname/file{3,4}
Older versions of rsync required using quoted spaces in the SRC, like
these examples:
rsync -av host:’dir1/file1 dir2/file2’ /dest
rsync host::’modname/dir1/file1 modname/dir2/file2’ /dest
I created a test file tree using
mkdir /home/rsync-test
mkdir /home/rsync-test/conf
mkdir /home/rsync-test/files
mkdir /home/rsync-test/files/a
mkdir /home/rsync-test/files/b
echo "file x" > /home/rsync-test/files/a/x
echo "file y" > /home/rsync-test/files/b/y
echo "file z" > /home/rsync-test/files/b/z
and then run
/usr/bin/rsync --daemon --config=/home/rsync-test/conf/rsyncd.conf
--address=127.0.0.1
using this rsyncd.conf:
------------------------------------------------------
use chroot = yes
[a]
comment = a folder
path = /home/rsync-test/files/a
[b]
comment = b folder
path = /home/rsync-test/files/b
------------------------------------------------------
The command
rsync 127.0.0.1::b/y ::b/z .
runs as expected, synchronizing files y and z with no errors. However, a
problem appears when the files are located in different modules:
rsync 127.0.0.1::b/y ::a/x .
fails with
rsync: change_dir "/a" (in b) failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous
errors) (code 23) at main.c(1677) [generator=3.1.3]
y has been synchronized, but x was not. The situation remains the same when
the host is explicitly added to the second argument. Similarly, adding the
quotes (old style syntax) does not help.
Possibly I am misunderstanding something; this behaviour baffles me.
Thanks for the attention
Furio
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii base-files 10.3+deb10u4
ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1
ii libacl1 2.2.53-4
ii libattr1 1:2.4.48-4
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libpopt0 1.16-12
ii lsb-base 10.2019051400
rsync recommends no packages.
Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii openssh-client 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2
ii openssh-server 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2
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