Re: sudo / --link-dest combination problem.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:32:06AM -0700, simon allfrey wrote: > works fine if I run it myself, however if it is run as root the -- > link-dest fails and all files are recreated rather than linked to. For files to be hard-linked together, they must be exactly the same in all preserved attributes.

RE: rsync error: some files could not be transferred -- How to ignore

Thanks Wayne.. Your mail answered my query perfectly.. -sanal On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:49:54PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any way to ignore these errors when i do file transfer using > rsync? What do you mean by ignore? They're just warnings, so rsync ignores them already for

sudo / --link-dest combination problem.

Hi, using the attached script to implement an incremental rotating backup of my home directory works fine if I run it myself, however if it is run as root the -- link-dest fails and all files are recreated rather than linked to. Can someone explain the problem to me? I'm using rsync version 2.