Package: rsync Version: 3.0.4-3 Severity: normal It would be nice if rsync had a flag to rsync to and/or from raw devices (as it just rsyncs the device file otherwise, with --devices). It would imply --inplace if the destination was a raw device file.
This would make backups of medium sized filesystems on large devices much much easier over the internet, because currently one must dd the device to a temporary file, rsync that across to another filesystem in the remote location, then possibly dd it back to a real device. Such a --rawdevice flag would eliminate both dd's and the required space for two intermediate copies of the filesystem. The whole filesystem would still have to be read on both source and destination, but writes would only be needed on changes blocks of the destination block device. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages rsync depends on: ii base-files 5 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip rsync recommends no packages. Versions of packages rsync suggests: ii openssh-client 1:5.1p1-4 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii openssh-server 1:5.1p1-4 secure shell server, an rshd repla -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
