Re: preserving symlinks

2004-12-28 Thread John Van Essen
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, C.Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I only want to preserv symlinks when copying but rsync deletes the > leading "/" on the target system or does nothing regarding to the > options I use. > > My Symlink on the Source Filesystem : serviceWeb -> > /users/service/.public

preserving symlinks

2004-12-28 Thread C.Zimmermann
Hi, I only want to preserv symlinks when copying but rsync deletes the leading "/" on the target system or does nothing regarding to the options I use. My Symlink on the Source Filesystem : serviceWeb -> /users/service/.public_html results to: serviceWeb -> users/service/.public_html on the dest

Re: rsync preserving symlinks on mirror

2004-06-05 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:24:30PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > There is one possible option I thought of. A special-case that would > allow a symlink to a dir to remain untouched if the sending side was > sending us a dir. I developed this option more fully and renamed it to be --keep-dirlinks.

Re: rsync preserving symlinks on mirror

2004-06-03 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:54:24PM +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote: > Hmm, I want to keep the symlinks in the original tree. So I think there > is no way to have both: keeping the original symlinks and having my own > symlinks are mutually exclusive options. Yes, and I apparently got your transfe

Re: rsync preserving symlinks on mirror

2004-06-03 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:41:06AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:23:33PM +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote: > > I would like to be able to just do a > > symlink from the original tree to the directory on the raid, > > Then you must either (1) tell rsync to expand all syml

Re: rsync preserving symlinks on mirror

2004-06-03 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:23:33PM +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote: > I would like to be able to just do a > symlink from the original tree to the directory on the raid, Then you must either (1) tell rsync to expand all symlinks, (2) avoid having rsync copy the non-matching symlink, (3) duplicate

rsync preserving symlinks on mirror

2004-06-03 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
Hi! I am using rsync succesfully to maintain my mirrors. I have one problem, tho. To improve speeds of my filesystems, I have created a raid 0 of 4 disks, and I place the most heavily copied disks there. The fs has subdirectories, one for each set of typically .iso files, such as Mandrakelinux or