/home/<user>/.gvfs causing problems for rsync

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 10:15 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > are likely to be causing the problem. And in this case the three most
> > obvious candidates were --delete, --delete-excluded and -r!
> The problem is not with rsync but with .gvfs.

Well, it's a bit of both. However, we've all been looking for a way to
get rsync to work around the problem.

> BTW, removing the -r also did not make any difference to my problem.

No, of course not - the -a option implies -r, so if you are using -a,
removing -r will have no effect.

Did you try --ignore errors? Just for fun?

I wonder what would happen if you tried it the other way around - run
rsync on the remote?

Another option is simply to dismount any filesystems mounted into .gvfs
before you do the backup; that would leave an ordinary directory.

Regards, K.

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