rsync "skipping non-regular files" with --archive option
Hi
According to the man page, rsync should copy "special" and "device" files if the corresponding options are set. Also the man page says that the -a option (--archive) includes the -D option, which is "same as --devices and --specials". BUT We use the -a option, and still get the following in our report: skipping non-regular file "pristine/dev/full" skipping non-regular file "pristine/dev/null" skipping non-regular file "pristine/dev/ptmx" skipping non-regular file "pristine/dev/random" skipping non-regular file "pristine/dev/tty" skipping non-regular file "pristine/dev/urandom" skipping non-regular file "pristine/dev/zero" Is this the expected behavior? (BTW this is copying a non-running linux-vserver called 'pristine') Thanks for any enlightenment. |
On regular linux I don't have "skipping non-regular file" with -a option.
You use only the -a option? Try set --links option. |
rsync options are "-vaH --delete"
linux version is debian lenny being run on the vserver host machine the files in question are in /var/lib/vservers/[vserver]/dev/ thanks for the information. I wonder if the problem has to do with the linux-image-vserver-686 kernel. |
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