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Thanks, I use rsync all the time, but wasn't aware that --inplace works with device files.
– Blair Zajac
Commented Aug 6, 2012 at 16:18
It's not working with rsync 3.0.9 on RHEL5:bash-3.2# $ rsync -P --inplace md0.image /dev/md0 md0.image 18883313664 2% 118.28MB/s 1:26:10 rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32) rsync: write failed on "/dev/md0": No space left on device (28) rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(322) [receiver=3.0.9] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (28 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(605) [sender=3.0.9]
– Blair Zajac
Commented Aug 6, 2012 at 16:30
Turns out that even with --inplace, rsync 3.0.9 clobbers /dev/md0 first.
– Blair Zajac
Commented Aug 6, 2012 at 16:57
Is it trying to append?
– Mechanical snail
Commented Aug 6, 2012 at 17:28

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