Re: Rsync: --link-dest when target and compare_dir both have file

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Rubel
Everyone: apologies for hitting the list twice; when my first message did not go through I thought I'd used the wrong From: address. J.W.: Thanks very much, this clears it up nicely: > --link-dest is built on --compare-dest and behaves like > --compare-dest as indicated in the manpage. > > Obs

Re: Rsync: --link-dest when target and compare_dir both have file

2003-06-03 Thread jw schultz
ist restarts, that's fine too. I'm CCing the list. > > Best regards, > Mike > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:56:50 -0700 (PDT) > From: Michael Rubel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: --lin

--link-dest when target and compare_dir both have file

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Rubel
Hi J.W. et al, Kevin Everets was kind enough to inform me about some strange behavior in his backup script, which seems to be the result of --link-dest behaving unexpectedly in the case where target/ is already populated with older versions of the same file. Here's the situation: We want to do

--link-dest when target and compare_dir both have file

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Rubel
Hi J.W. et al, Kevin Everets was kind enough to inform me about some strange behavior in his backup script, which seems to be the result of --link-dest behaving unexpectedly in the case where target/ is already populated with older versions of the same file. Here's the situation: We want to do