On Wed 16 Oct 2024, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > I use it almost exclusively on Linux systems and it would be really > handy if I could set a number of options which would always be used > when I run rsync. These would be in addition to -a which is useful > but not quite enough. > > In particular I always want to copy extended attributes (-X), ACLs > (-A) and hardlinks (-H). > > I've recently lost a number of extended attributes (not a huge amount > but I'd prefer not to repeat the loss). This was almost certainly a > result of them being lost when I used rsync to copy some files around. > > So, is there any way to set some parameters system-wide such that > rsync will always use them without them being explicitly set when it's > called?
Search the rsync manual page for popt . You can "overload" the -a option to include the extra options you need; create a file .popt in your home directory and add a line: rsync alias -a -aXAH 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
