I'm trying to synchronize a particularly troublesome directory structure on a SunOS box to a PC. I really want all symbolic links resolved to real files on the PC when everything is done. I can't seem to find any combination of parameters that will accomplish this.
It boils down to two problems. 1. It seems like that even if I exclude a symbolic link that is a directory it is not excluded. 2. It seems like copy-links and copy-unsafe-links don't work for symbolic links to directories outside the source tree. Is this the correct behavior or am I doing something wrong. Any input is greatly appreciated. Here is my rsyncd.conf file... ----------------------------------- motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid uid = kminder gid = svrtech [test] path = /home/kminder/rsync/test comment = test read only = yes list = yes ----------------------------------- Below is a simplified source structure on the unix side (source). Note the .rel symlink and the .abs symlink. ----------------------------------- /home/kminder/rsync> ls -al outside test outside: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 kminder g904 4096 Dec 13 11:37 . drwxr-xr-x 5 kminder g904 4096 Dec 13 11:29 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder g904 15 Dec 13 11:37 file test: total 24 drwxr-xr-x 3 kminder g904 4096 Dec 13 11:36 . drwxr-xr-x 5 kminder g904 4096 Dec 13 11:29 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 kminder g904 27 Dec 13 11:36 .abs -> /home/kminder/rsync/outside lrwxrwxrwx 1 kminder g904 3 Dec 13 11:34 .rel -> dir lrwxrwxrwx 1 kminder g904 9 Dec 13 11:36 absfile -> .abs/file drwxr-xr-x 2 kminder g904 4096 Dec 13 11:34 dir -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder g904 10 Dec 13 11:32 file lrwxrwxrwx 1 kminder g904 4 Dec 13 11:33 link -> file lrwxrwxrwx 1 kminder g904 4 Dec 13 11:33 linklink -> link lrwxrwxrwx 1 kminder g904 9 Dec 13 11:35 relfile -> .rel/file ----------------------------------- I'm trying for the following structure on the pc (cygwin ls -al). Note that all links should be resolved. I want the duplicate files. ----------------------------------- drwxr-xr-x+ 4 kminder None 4096 Dec 13 11:36 . drwxrwxrwx+ 14 Administ Administ 8192 Dec 13 11:20 .. drwxr-xr-x+ 2 kminder None 0 Dec 13 11:34 dir -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder None 10 Dec 13 11:32 file -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder None 10 Dec 13 11:32 link -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder None 10 Dec 13 11:32 linklink -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder None 14 Dec 13 11:34 relfile -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder None 14 Dec 13 11:34 absfile ----------------------------------- When I execute the command that I think should accomplish this... D:\sync>rsync -rptgDvP --port=34343 --copy-links --copy-unsafe-links --exclude .rel --exclude .abs kminder@usunnbd25::test d:\sync The resulting output follows... ----------------------------------- receiving file list ... readlink absfile: No such file or directory 7 files to consider ./ dir/ dir/file 14 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 file 10 100% 9.77kB/s 0:00:00 link 10 100% 9.77kB/s 0:00:00 linklink 10 100% 9.77kB/s 0:00:00 relfile 14 100% 13.67kB/s 0:00:00 wrote 190 bytes read 465 bytes 187.14 bytes/sec total size is 58 speedup is 0.09 rsync error: partial transfer (code D:\sync>dir23) at /tmp/rsync-2.5.5/main.c(926) ----------------------------------- My disk ends up looking as follows. Again using cygwin ls -al. ----------------------------------- drwxr-xr-x+ 4 kminder None 4096 Dec 13 11:36 . drwxrwxrwx+ 14 Administ Administ 8192 Dec 13 11:20 .. drwxr-xr-x+ 2 kminder None 0 Dec 13 11:34 .rel drwxr-xr-x+ 2 kminder None 0 Dec 13 11:34 dir -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder None 10 Dec 13 11:32 file -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder None 10 Dec 13 11:32 link -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder None 10 Dec 13 11:32 linklink -rw-r--r-- 1 kminder None 14 Dec 13 11:34 relfile ----------------------------------- If I do it without the excludes like this... rsync -rptgDvP --port=34343 --copy-links --copy-unsafe-links kminder@usunnbd25::test d:/sync The output is this... ----------------------------------- receiving file list ... readlink .abs: No such file or directory readlink absfile: No such file or directory 9 files to consider ./ dir/ dir/file 14 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 file 10 100% 9.77kB/s 0:00:00 link 10 100% 9.77kB/s 0:00:00 linklink 10 100% 9.77kB/s 0:00:00 relfile 14 100% 13.67kB/s 0:00:00 wrote 174 bytes read 540 bytes 204.00 bytes/sec total size is 72 speedup is 0.10 rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at /tmp/rsync-2.5.5/main.c(926) ----------------------------------- My PC filesystem looks the same as it did above. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html