Re: rsync problems for debian.uchicago.edu resolved

Just a thanks, I was running across the same error this week and had given
up.

Jeff

On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 4:44 AM Brent Busby <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just wanted to let someone know that we were troubleshooting problems
> related to this rsync bug for awhile:
>
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg1868866.html
>
> https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/issues/356
>
> Apparently, newer versions of rsync interpret exclude patterns
> differently (such as the exclusion of ftpsync's project folder), which
> was causing it to behave badly and require some further bugfixes from
> rsync's developers.  Our upstream at MIT was having problems also.
>
> I've upgraded rsync on our end to the latest git snapshot, and it seems
> to have solved the problem and brought us back in sync.
>
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