On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 13:01 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: > I have a fairly straightforward backup script that does something like this: > > cd / > rsync -a --delete --relative home/phil/important backupserver:/backup/foo/ > > This was working fine and, for example, /home/phil/important/file1 was > copied to /backup/foo/home/phil/important/file1 on the backup server. > > But then I changed the disk partition arrangement on the source > machine. Before, /home was a filesystem; now there's a filesystem > called /data, and /home is a symlink to /data/home: > > ls -l / > ... > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 9 2007 data > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 21 2006 home -> data/home/ > ... > > Now, it seems that rsync notices this symlink and tries to recreate it > on the backup server because of the -l implied by -a. This is not what > I want. However, I do want any symlinks inside /home/phil/important to > be copied as links, so I can't simply drop the -l.
Upgrade the sending rsync to 3.0.0 or newer (which always sends ancestors of a source argument as directories, not symlinks, with --relative) or pass --no-implied-dirs to avoid processing the ancestors of home/phil/important at all. Matt
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