On Mon 04 Jan 2010, d...@safeport.com wrote: > > The command works but copies all files, i.e. no hard links created. > > rsync -vaxH --numeric-ids --delete --exclude=/home/apache/logs \ > --link-dest=/mnt/200912/newharbor/home -e ssh newharbor.safeport.com:/home > \ > 201001/newharbor/home/ > > The command was run without the continuation breaks that I added for > readability. The command ended with:
You're transferring to a relative destination path, but are using an absolute link-dest path. I prefer to do that the other way round :-) I'd do: rsync -vaxH ... --link-dest=../../../200912/newharbor/home/ \ newharbor.safeport.com:/home /mnt/201001/newharbor/home/ > I assume this is my error but can not find anything wrong. At most You could add more -v options to make rsync more verbose, that might give you hints where it goes wrong. Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html