On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:20 +0100, Matt wrote: > I am using --link-dest for my rotating backups. Noticing the > "--detect-renamed-lax" patch to rsync 3.0.0. I was hoping to make use > of the --detect-moved. Unfortunately, "--detect-moved" does not seem > to recognize the --linkdest option. A moved file is getting transferred > again and a new file is created at the receiving end instead of > linking to the moved file. Am I doing something wrong or is --link-dest > simply not supported by --detect-moved?
The latter: the --detect-* options only detect files in the destination directory, not --*-dest directories. Modifying rsync to scan --*-dest directories too would take a considerable amount of additional code. To accomplish what you want with the currently available tools, you could prepopulate the destination with "cp -al" instead of using --link-dest and then pass the --no-tweak-hlinked option implemented by the following patch to avoid any attribute-tweaking issues: http://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs/heads/tweak-opts Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
