From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 02:17:05 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bin/srsync,bin/srsync-incremental: Add --sparse.
X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?p=config%2Fdotfiles.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0d6984392f748d7e4ba2064e379e6d8d4d11180

bin/srsync,bin/srsync-incremental: Add --sparse.
---

diff --git a/bin/srsync b/bin/srsync
index 28dff09..81000fb 100755
--- a/bin/srsync
+++ b/bin/srsync
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
 # rsync shortcut with options "everybody" needs.
 
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2012  Simon Ruderich
+# Be careful when restoring /boot with --sparse, GRUB doesn't support sparse
+# files (e.g. the kernel). Therefore don't use --sparse in this case.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2014  Simon Ruderich
 #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -26,6 +29,7 @@ exec rsync \
     --human-readable \
     --archive \
     --hard-links \
+    --sparse \
     --numeric-ids \
     --one-file-system \
     "$@"
diff --git a/bin/srsync-incremental b/bin/srsync-incremental
index 644b2fe..7fe898a 100755
--- a/bin/srsync-incremental
+++ b/bin/srsync-incremental
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Thanks to http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups_2010.html for the
 # idea.
 
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2013  Simon Ruderich
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2014  Simon Ruderich
 #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ fi
 mkdir current
 rsync \
     --verbose --itemize-changes --human-readable \
-    --archive --hard-links --numeric-ids --one-file-system \
+    --archive --hard-links --sparse --numeric-ids --one-file-system \
     --link-dest="$dest" \
     "$@" current \
 || {