Re: rsync and symbolic links (fwd)

Hello Wayne! Any plans to implement the feature in rsync 3.0 to copy the link and the linked item to make backups perfect? Thnx. Ciao, Gerhard -- http://www.wiesinger.com/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 18:39:19 +0100 (CET) From: Gerhard Wiesinger <[EM

Re: rsync and symbolic links

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Wayne Davison wrote: On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:29:15AM +0100, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: + etc/ + etc/* + etc/.* + etc/*/ + etc/*/* + etc/*/.* + etc/**/ + etc/**/* + etc/**/.* Rsync doesn't treat leading dots specially, nor do you need to do a directory match after do

rsync and symbolic links

Hello! I'm using rsync to generate a backup. DATE=`date +%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S` cat files.txt | rsync -avz -e ssh --include-from=- / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backup/$DATE files.txt contains e.g.: - /home/user1 + etc/ + etc/* + etc/.* + etc/*/ + etc/*/* + etc/*/.* + etc/**/ + etc/**/* + etc/**/.* + boot/