Re: Symlink file syncing issue

2004-11-08 Thread Joel Watson
In case anyone was interested... I finally have it working using the below rsync commands (this is from a script, so I'm just leaving the variable names in): Sync'ing TO the server: rsync -avzruR --files-from=/Users/username/file-list --rsync-path=~/rsync -e ssh --exclude ".DS_Store" $SOURCE $

Re: Symlink file syncing issue

2004-11-08 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:10:56AM -0800, Joel Watson wrote: > However, it definitely DID follow the symlink and update the files at > that location. If the symlink pointed to a directory, yes (as I explained, that's how 2.6.2 behaved with -L, and how 2.6.3 behaves with -K). The only way to make

Re: Symlink file syncing issue

2004-11-08 Thread Joel Watson
On Nov 8, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Wayne Davison wrote: There has never been an rsync option to update local files in the spot where a symlink points. You probably thought it worked only because the unintentional -L side-effect could deceive you if the files were identical: no update occurs when they a

Re: Symlink file syncing issue

2004-11-08 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:51:40PM -0800, Joel Watson wrote: > [The -L] works as expected for the folders (the symlinks remain intact > at ~/Sync on the local machine and the linked locations are updated) That is not what -L does. It was an unintended side-effect on older rsync versions that -L a

Re: Symlink file syncing issue

2004-11-07 Thread johhhn
Not sure if it matters or not, but are you using the hfs+ version of rsrync? If not, you definitely should do that no matter what. John On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 13:51:40 -0800, Joel Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've been attempting to use rsync to sync a set of files between my > la

Symlink file syncing issue

2004-11-07 Thread Joel Watson
Hi! I've been attempting to use rsync to sync a set of files between my laptop and my desktop. I've tried using google to search the archives, but didn't find anything that addressed this issue exactly... First of all, here are the details of how I have things set up. Server acting as the inter