Re: change of behaviour on rsync -R and top level symlinks?

2010-06-19 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:44:45PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Marc MERLIN wrote: > > > I should keep my /a -> /c symlink on the destination without > > --no-implied-dirs since I have /a -> /c on the source too, and this is what >

Re: change of behaviour on rsync -R and top level symlinks?

2010-06-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:09:07PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:11:57AM +0200, francis.montag...@sophia.inria.fr > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:58:36 PDT Marc MERLIN wrote: > > > > > The /data symlink is clobbered and

Re: change of behaviour on rsync -R and top level symlinks?

2010-06-16 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:11:57AM +0200, francis.montag...@sophia.inria.fr wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:58:36 PDT Marc MERLIN wrote: > > > The /data symlink is clobbered and replaced by a directory. Very bad! > > > Any idea what's going on here and is ther

change of behaviour on rsync -R and top level symlinks?

2010-06-15 Thread Marc MERLIN
Here is what my data looks like: source:~# ls -ld /data /data/etc2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2010-06-03 23:32 /data -> /export/hda3 -rw-r--r-- 1 produser prod 4 2010-06-15 17:30 /data/etc2 destination:/# ls -l /data lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2010-06-15 18:36 /data -> /export/hda3 Let's sta

doing an md5sum rsync?

2003-09-07 Thread Marc MERLIN
I don't know if this has been requested before, but I would really like for rsync to compute an md5sum for each file at the source and destination (with a flag turned off by default of course), and it would realize that I renamed files at the source by noticing a matching md5sum between different f