[Bug 12732] hard links can cause rsync to block or to silently skip files

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12732 --- Comment #2 from devuran...@gmx.net --- There are a lot of bugreports related to rsync hanging mysteriously, some of which may be duplicates of each other: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1442

Re: [Bug 12732] hard links can cause rsync to block or to silently skip files

Note that in all --*-dest options if the path is relative it is relative to the target dir not the "$PWD". I like to always use absolute paths because of this. But essentially, the command with the instances of $PWD vs without them the paths aren't the same. If you want all relative to . paths

[Bug 12732] hard links can cause rsync to block or to silently skip files

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12732 --- Comment #1 from Hansjoerg Lipp --- Am 05.04.2017 um 22:05 schrieb L A Walsh via rsync: >I ran rsync 3.1.1 for over a year to help generate > snapshots. I can't say if it copied all the files or not, as > it was backing up