On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:03:12PM -0700, Gwendal Stevanazzi wrote:
>
> Here is the structure of my servers :
>
> Source :
>
> /home/test1/link_dir
> sub_dir1
> file1
> file2
> ...
> sub_dir2
> ...
>
> Destination:
>
> /home/test2/real_dir
> sub_dir1
> file1
> file2
> ...
> subdir2
> ...
> /home/test2/link_dir@ -> real_dir
>
>
>
> Now I want to update file1.
> If I run the command
> rsync -aRz file1 destination:/home/test2/link_dir/sub_dir1
> from /home/test1/link_dir/sub_dir1 on source, no problem, the file is
> updated.
>
> If I run the command
> rsync -aRz link_dir/sub_dir1/file1 destination:/home/test2/
> from /home/test1 on source, the new fs structure on destination is:
>
> /home/test2/real_dir
> sub_dir1
> file1
> file2
> ...
> subdir2
> ...
>
> /home/test2/link_dir
> sub_dir1
> file1
>
> The symlink is erase and replace by a 'real' directory.
>
>
> Is it the expected behaviour?
>
> How could I prevent this kind of things to happen ?
It is inferred because you haven't yet traversed the link
and since rsync doesn't see a directory it will create one. Try
rsync -aRz link_dir/sub_dir1/file1 destination:/home/test2/./
to force the traversal of the link so it is already inside
the destination.
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