On Saturday 20 November 2010 23:54:36 Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. > Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that > symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as > soon a paths get changed. look at the example: > > $ ls -la /mnt/rsync/vista/ > wxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 nov 11 17:41 . > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 5 nov 20 12:10 .. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 mar 24 2009 Archivos de programa -> > /mnt/vista/Program Files > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 mar 24 2009 Boot > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 333203 ene 21 2008 bootmgr > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 mar 24 2009 BOOTSECT.BAK > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 nov 2 2006 Documents and Settings -> > /mnt/vista/Users > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 171136 sep 4 2009 grldr > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 171136 sep 2 2009 grldr.bak > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 jun 1 2009 Jocs > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 904704 dic 1 2006 msdia80.dll > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 oct 27 17:03 ProgramData > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 sep 6 21:58 Program Files > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 oct 11 16:43 Program Files (x86) > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 mar 24 2009 RaidTool > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 mar 27 2010 $Recycle.Bin > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 mar 24 2009 System Volume Information > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 mar 24 2009 Users > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 264 nov 11 16:23 Windows > > The symlink "Archivos de programa -> /mnt/vista/Program Files" is > wrong, it should point to the relative path, something like "Archivos > de programa -> Program Files". rsync is called this way: > > rsync -aERPv --progress rsync://localhost/Windows-Vista-backup > /mnt/rsync/vista/ > > Do someone know which should be the correct options to create clone > backup without breaking permissions neither symlinks? thanks in > advanced :)
I haven't tried it, but have you experimented with these options:
-l, --links copy symlinks as symlinks
-L, --copy-links transform symlink into referent file/dir
--copy-unsafe-links only "unsafe" symlinks are transformed
--safe-links ignore symlinks that point outside the
tree
-k, --copy-dirlinks transform symlink to dir into referent dir
-K, --keep-dirlinks treat symlinked dir on receiver as dir
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Regards,
Mick
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