So all I want is rsyncing files while preserving their _absolute_ paths on the target machine which doesn't seem possible.
Check out the --relative (-R) option in the man page. That would let you do something like this:
rsync -avR `cat /path/file-list` dest:/
Or, the CVS version of rsync which has the --files-from option:
rsync -av --files-from=/path/file-list / dest:/
(Note that the --files-from option implies --relative.)
Thanks, that's what I was looking for! Indeed 'relative' plus just '/' as the path sortof becomes absolute. I had no Idea this option would keep paths so I skipped it :).
Got my backup now happlily working with rsync-cvs.
-Thomas
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