Am 14.11.19 um 15:02 schrieb Paul Slootman via rsync: > On Thu 14 Nov 2019, Pierre Bernhardt via rsync wrote: > So it's looking for b/a as the link-dest directory. > > Use a full pathname for --link-dest to remove all uncertainty. > E.g.: > > rsync -av --link-dest=$(pwd)/a a/ b/ > > In this case, as the destination is also in same current directory, you > could use: > > rsync -av --link-dest=../a a/ b/ Working:
pierre@in94:~/tmp$ ls -li a b a: insgesamt 8 257315 -rw-r--r-- 1 pierre pierre 4 Nov 14 10:53 1 257316 -rw-r--r-- 1 pierre pierre 6 Nov 14 10:53 2 b: insgesamt 0 pierre@in94:~/tmp$ rsync -av --link-dest=$(pwd)/a a/ b/ sending incremental file list ./ sent 98 bytes received 19 bytes 234.00 bytes/sec total size is 10 speedup is 0.09 pierre@in94:~/tmp$ ls -li a b a: insgesamt 8 257315 -rw-r--r-- 2 pierre pierre 4 Nov 14 10:53 1 257316 -rw-r--r-- 2 pierre pierre 6 Nov 14 10:53 2 b: insgesamt 8 257315 -rw-r--r-- 2 pierre pierre 4 Nov 14 10:53 1 257316 -rw-r--r-- 2 pierre pierre 6 Nov 14 10:53 2 But it's really complex to understand. Why it's not possble to simply create hard links if source and target is on the same filesystem and use a simple option instead of the sourc-link-complex-option. Is this for linke backup reason if the source dir is different from the link-dest dir because of different hosts like rsync -av --dest-link=../a a/ backuphost:b/ where on backuphost a is an older copy and b is the new target? Cheers, -- 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
