On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Steven Monai <smona...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > Chris Francy wrote: > > I'm in a situation somewhat similar to yours. Up to now I have been > using the current stable Cygwin (v1.5) to test rsync as a possible > backup solution. I have a home-baked rsync/--link-dest script that > ... > limitations, but it would really suck if the --link-dest magic stopped > working in v1.7.
I have learned that if I don't copy the permissions/ownership information then the link-dest works fine. I only used those options in the past because older versions of rsync would not do link-dest unless you copied ownership/permissions. > Probably a dumb question, but: Are you 100% certain that > 2009101420/tree/ and 2009101610/tree/ are on the same filesystem? Yup, 100% certain. > Could you post the contents of your rsync daemon's rsyncd.conf ? Are you > using identical rsyncd.conf files in your 1.5 and 1.7 installations? Yup, i am sure they are identical, and the config is very simple. --- rsyncd.conf use chroot = false strict modes = false hosts allow = 10.x.x.x log file = rsyncd.log pid file = rsyncd.pid [data] path = /cygdrive/d read only = true transfer logging = no --- > Is --link-dest failing completely (i.e. no hardlinks created at all), or > only partially (i.e. some unchanged files are hardlinked, while some are > merely copied)? What version of rsync is running on the Debian box? Absolutely nothing was getting linked together. r...@linuxhost:$ rsync --version rsync version 3.0.3 protocol version 30 Copyright (C) 1996-2008 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes Thanks, Chris -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple