Thanks Joe for the reply: 1) why do you say to use fuzzy twice? Do you mean in both directions? 2) I have to mention that the remote system is a Synology NAS, which for whatever reason (I can't think about), doesn't support symlinks, even in the same disk volume or "share"!
> But I could make some symlinks in the local system (archlinux) and user > exclude filters to remove the directories I don't want to synchronize. > But still there is no way of doing this with rsync options alone? *_______________Gionata Boccalini* 2015-06-07 19:28 GMT+02:00 Joe <jose...@main.nc.us>: > I'm sure one of the experts will have a better answer, but two things come > to mind as options to explore: > 1) Use --fuzzy twice so files which are the same but possibly with > different names and locations are synced > 2) Use some sort of symlinks on the destination so the names actually > match (these could be added and removed right before and after the rsync > respectively if you don't want them around later.) Symlinks are tricky with > rsync. You have to set the options right, so I'm not sure of the exact > details. > > > On 06/07/2015 12:38 PM, Gionata Boccalini wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm new to this mailing list but I have been using rsync for some years >> up to now. >> I'm trying to synchronize two directory trees, but I want a special >> behavior that I didn't find on the net nor in the manual (or maybe there is >> a combination of options to get what I want but I couldn't find it). >> >> Tree A is like: >> >> A >> * >> * >> FolderA >> * >> * >> >> And tree B (on a remote filesystem) is like: >> >> B >> * >> * >> * >> FolderB >> * >> * >> >> >> I have to synchronize everything in one rsync run, like >> rysnc -arv A/ B/ >> >> but I want FolderA to be synchronized with FolderB. >> They must contain the same files but have a different name! I want >> something like a "directory name translation" in the rsync run... >> Is it possible? Do you see any another way of doing this? (A part of >> using two rsync runs....) >> Please let me know if I didn't explain the problem correctly or you need >> further information. >> Thank you for your attention and time. >> Best regards. >> /_______________ >> >> Gionata Boccalini/ >> >> >> >
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