On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 20:33 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: > I assume you mean that the symlinks in /home/laptop/ point to files in > /data/ and you want them to point to the corresponding files in > /home/laptop/ . The obvious fix is to use relative symlinks instead > of absolute ones.
Exactly, I didn't even consider this. It works perfectly! > Do you really want $HOME? I thought $HOME on the desktop was > /remote/home/desktop/ , but the symlinks point into /data/ . Anyway, > the answer is no: no filesystem I know of supports symlinks relative > to environment variables, and rsync doesn't support rewriting symlinks > paths. But maybe ordinary relative symlinks (which are relative to > the directory containing them) will do what you want. OK, thanks. My setup is a little confusing because I have this remote home directory that gives me only a few hundred MB of space, but most applications default to the home directory for saving, opening, etc. So, I have symlinks in the home directory pointing to the things I need on /data/. The result is, if symlinks were real directories, the home directories of each machine look pretty much the same. > I don't understand exactly what you are trying to do (an example might > help), but I have a guess. To make rsync follow a few specified > symlinks to directories (but not other symlinks) in the source, use > --relative and list each symlink to follow as a source argument with a > trailing slash. For example, if you want rsync to copy src/ to dest/ > , following the symlink at src/link1 , do this: > > rsync -rl --relative src/./ src/./link1/ dest/ > Thanks for the tip. I actually found it easier to use the --files-from option... that option wasn't working when I wrote the first message because of a syntax mistake. It's working perfectly now. Thanks again. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
