On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 19:20 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> However It can do more than your saying there I think when symlinks
> are involved it can have unexpected results.
>
> See this thread on gmane that nobody responded too. You'll notice I
> had an even murkier understanding then but still what was happening
> was a "really confusing directory structure":
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rsnapshot.general/742
>From that thread:
> The whole SOURCE path is mirrored in there [...].
You have captured the effect of --relative in one sentence. That's all
there is to it! As far as I can tell, the symlink from /home/reader
to /anex2/reader had nothing to do with the behavior because your
rsnapshot.conf never mentioned /home/reader.
On the other hand, if /anex2/reader had been a symlink, some strange
things might have happened. If you want the details of the interactions
between symlinks and --relative, read the new explanation of
--no-implied-dirs in the CVS rsync man page:
http://www.samba.org/cvsweb/rsync/rsync.yo
Playing with rsync is probably the best way to figure out what it does
in different cases. In fact, I have a directory ~/tmp dedicated to
rsync experimentation; an assortment of source and destination
directories has accumulated inside it as I have investigated various
behaviors and issues.
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