Re: --link-dest copying modified files

2007-01-23 Thread it-rsync
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:39:31 -0800, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're better off maintaining a symlink named "current" that points to > the most recent directory. Either that, or rename the dirs after the > transfer. Hm, that does not work as our backup software has to pick up th

--link-dest copying modified files

2007-01-23 Thread it-rsync
Hi! It's me again with another --link-dest issue: I am using dirvish (www.dirvish.org) to create daily backup on disk images. dirvish is using rsync with --link-dest pointing to the last good image. This creates images with hardlinks to unmodified files. So far so good. Now I want to create a "

Re: bug with --link-dest ?

2007-01-22 Thread it-rsync
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:30:01 -0500, "Matt McCutchen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're right. The description of --link-dest=DIR in the man page > says, "If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the destination > directory." This is because the generator and receiver access the DIR > by

bug with --link-dest ?

2007-01-22 Thread it-rsync
Hi! I am running rsync 2.6.4 (on Debian sarge) and I am experiencing a strange behaviour. I am trying to create an identical filetree on the same filesystems with the single files being hardlinks to the source like this: rsync -vaH --progress --delete --stats --numeric-ids -x --link-dest=/path/