I have a laptop and desktop that have most of home directory data sync'd, but I am having trouble keeping symlinks straight.
On the desktop, my data is separate from the $HOME folder... $HOME = /remote/home/desktop/ and the data is at /data/. Within /data/, I have several directories that are inter-related... eg, /data/pub1/figs is a link pointing to /data/imgs/pub1. It makes life easier when I'm writing. On the laptop, the $HOME directory (/home/laptop/) should be the same as /data/, with the exception of several large sets of data, videos, etc. The problem is that when I rsync /data/ to /home/laptop/, the symlinks point to the wrong location. Is there any workaround for this - a way to specify the symlinks as $HOME/... rather than the absolute directory tree? Similarly, if I want to ease syncing even further, I can create a directory $HOME/sync/home/ that contains symlinks to each of the actual directories I want to sync and use the -L option to transfer the actual directories. This makes entering the commands easy, but runs into problems with the other symlinks. Any easier way to do this? Thanks for your help! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/symlinks-and-different-%24HOME-variables-tf3228794.html#a8970322 Sent from the Samba - rsync mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
