I can't seem to get the hardlinks to work in windows via --link-dest. It just refuses to find the files in the directory and make a hard link. Here's the setup. -I run 2 rsyncs from batch files called sync.bat and sync2.bat. -I'm connected to the server via a mapped network drive, we'll call it 'z'. -I then run the client, on the destination, once to pull the data from the server and make a base-level mirror in a directory I call "source". -Next, I want to run the backup again and put it in a different directory called "mirror", but only hardlink the files that already exist in my base-level mirror.
Every time that I run the first backup to "source", everything works fine and all of the files are moved to the location desired. Then when I run the second backup, which is supposed to hardlink to the first one if the file already exists, it merely copies all the files and doesn't make a single hardlink. //References sync.bat, first backup (z is the mapped network drive,destination is #the machine I am on) "c:\program files\cwrsync\rsync.exe" -avr --stats "/cygdrive/z/users/scott's folder/testBackup/" destination::testBigCopy #sync2.bat second backup - should use hardlinks "c:\program files\cwrsync\rsync.exe" -avr --stats --link-dest="/cygdrive/c/source" "/cygdrive/z/Users/Scott's Folder/testBackup/" destination::testHardLinks #rsyncd.conf [testBigCopy] path = /cygdrive/c/source/ read only = false transfer logging = yes [testHardLinks] path = /cygdrive/c/Mirror/testBackup/ read only = false transfer logging = yes Any ideas? I've tried nearly everything that I could think of that had even the slightest modicum of validity for a resolution. Nothing works yet. -- "Of course, that's just my opinion; I could be wrong" -Dennis Miller -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
