On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, jw schultz wrote: > 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.
Thanks for your quick answer, but unforunately it didn't work any better. Here is the output of the command with -v and --stats if it helps: building file list ... done link_dir/ link_dir/sub_dir1/ link_dir/sub_dir1/file1 rsync[17349] (server receiver) heap statistics: arena: 123544 (bytes from sbrk) rsync[17347] (sender) heap statistics: arena: 336536 (bytes from sbrk) ordblks: 2 (chunks not in use) smblks: 0 hblks: 0 (chunks from mmap) hblkhd: 0 (bytes from mmap) usmblks: 0 fsmblks: 0 uordblks: 326880 (bytes used) fordblks: 9656 (bytes free) keepcost: 5560 (bytes in releasable chunk) Number of files: 3 Number of files transferred: 1 Total file size: 266240 bytes Total transferred file size: 266240 bytes Literal data: 266240 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 96 Total bytes written: 266517 Total bytes read: 36 wrote 266517 bytes read 36 bytes 533106.00 bytes/sec total size is 266240 speedup is 1.00 This test was done with rsync version 2.5.6cvs protocol version 26 but I don't think it matters ... -- Gwen -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
