[Bug 728227] Re: add --copy-devices option to rsync

[Simon Déziel]

Looks like rsync got that option in the end as this is what I get from
18.04's version:

# rsync --help | grep copy-devices
     --copy-devices          copy device contents as regular file

# dpkg -l| grep rsync
ii  rsync                            3.1.2-2.1ubuntu1.4                        amd64        fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool

** Changed in: rsync (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  add --copy-devices option to rsync

Status in rsync package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in rsync package in Fedora:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: rsync

  1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.10
  Release:	10.10

  2)
  $ apt-cache policy rsync
  rsync:
    Installed: 3.0.7-2ubuntu1
    Candidate: 3.0.7-2ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 3.0.7-2ubuntu1 0
          500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  3) What you expected to happen
  I want to be able to copy whole device content as part of backing up kvm virtual machines, this can be enabled by adding patches/copy-devices.diff from rsync-patches-3.0.7.tar.gz

  4)
  $ rsync --copy-devices
  rsync: --copy-devices: unknown option

  
  Apparently some one using fedora had the same idea; https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494313

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