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Commit a2646868 authored by Fabian Raab's avatar Fabian Raab Committed by Jérôme Charaoui
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Create path hirarchy of source path automatically in destination

Before it was only possible to backup root directories (depth one, eg.
/etc, /var, /usr, …). For example consider the following truncated toy
configuration for rsync:

    [general]
    mountpoint = /media/
    backupdir = backup
    [source]
    include = /foo/bar
    include = /etc

We assume you have prepared the existent but empty base-directory
/media/backup/ at your destination, then against the expectation, the
following error rises:

    rsync: mkdir "/media/backup/foo/bar/" failed: No such file or directory (2)

The reason is that rsync will take the files from the folder /foo/bar/
and tries to put them into the ulitmate – and therefore existent –
destination /media/backup/foo/bar. This is not what you would expect,
since the prepared directory /media/backup exists and the application
should create the rest itself.

This Merge Request adds a little script which creates the required
directories in the destination before running rsync. It assumes that
the base-directory already exists, so that not too much directories
are created automatically (could be a mess if you accidentally type the
wrong path)
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