Hello, I have read through the list of previous issues regarding this issue but haven't been able to resolve mine. I apologize in advance for the long text and am probably doing some simple typo. I have two servers in my setup:
*Server 1* Doing rsync with --link-dest daily and working as expected. I'm getting the hard links in the new daily directories. *Server 2* Running rsync daemon mode with following config [offsite] path = /media/external/backup/ comment = Offsite backup read only = no hosts allow = 192.168.2.0/24 auth users = backup secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.scrt uid = 0 gid = 0 *My Goal* Server 1 has been running for several months now so it has several months of daily backups. I was able to do an initial sync to server 2 using -H option to keep my hardlink structure. That worked fine and my original plan was to just run the same rsync with -H after the daily backup was complete to keep both in sync. But that turned out to be very slow building the incremental file list as I'm guessing it scanned all files for each daily backup (even though they were hard lnked). So my next plan was to just sync that latest daily backup from server 1 to server 2 and use the --link-dest option on server 2 to link it to the previous day. *The Problem* This is the command I'm troubleshooting right now rsync -a -v -n -i --delete --link-dest=/backup-2016-02-01-0100 --password-file=/media/external/scripts/offsite_rsync.pass /media/external/backup/backup-2016-02-02-0100 backup@192.168.2.102::offsite It seems to be sending all files as new files (i.e. not picking up the link-dest option). I've tried using no slash at the beginning of link-dest, tried using ./ tried full path. etc. Here is a snippet of the output from server 1 which is running the command: <f+++++++++ backup-2016-02-02-0100/media/external/owncloud/data/sam/files/Photos/2007/20070120 DC Air and Space Museum/IMGP0906.JPG On server 2 there is no backup-2016-02-02-0100 directory. However, the link-dest option I'm using has the file on server 2: -rw------- 147 www-data www-data 4454193 Jan 20 2007 /media/external/backup/backup-2016-02-01-0100/media/external/owncloud/data/sam/files/Photos/2007/20070120 DC Air and Space Museum/IMGP0906.JPG Output of same file from server 1 -rw------- 151 www-data www-data 4454193 Jan 20 2007 /media/external/backup/backup-2016-02-02-0100/media/external/owncloud/data/sam/files/Photos/2007/20070120 DC Air and Space Museum/IMGP0906.JPG *Troubleshooting* If I manually create the copy of server 2 first (cp -al backup-2016-02-01-0100 backup-2016-02-02-0100) and then run rsync without the --link-dest option I get the expected results. Only the files that changed or were removed/added are transferred. Also I tried running the actual transfer without -n and it is indeed transferring all the old files. Any help is appreciated.
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