Re: symlinks that become directories question

2007-10-30 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 08:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] I believe leaving off "--keep-dirlinks" > will not cause any problems, as the symlinks that point to directories on > the primary drive will still be intact on the backup drive, and can be > restored "as is" on a restore, correct?

Re: symlinks that become directories question

2007-10-30 Thread rob
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 13:15 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If I have a backup script that does the following: > > (latest 2.6.9 rsync) > > > > rsync --archive --hard-links --force --ignore-errors --numeric-ids > > --keep-dirlinks --delete / /backup

Re: symlinks that become directories question

2007-10-29 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 13:15 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I have a backup script that does the following: > (latest 2.6.9 rsync) > > rsync --archive --hard-links --force --ignore-errors --numeric-ids > --keep-dirlinks --delete / /backup > > I've found that if there is a symlink in place

symlinks that become directories question

2007-10-29 Thread rob
If I have a backup script that does the following: (latest 2.6.9 rsync) rsync --archive --hard-links --force --ignore-errors --numeric-ids --keep-dirlinks --delete / /backup I've found that if there is a symlink in place that gets backed up (which goes fine), i.e.: homelink -> /home/ and then