Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All --relative does is cause rsync to duplicate the source path (minus > any leading /) inside the destination. For example, the command > cd / && rsync usr/ home/matt/ /backup/ > mixes my personal files with bin, lib, share, src, and so forth > immediately inside the backup folder. But > cd / && rsync --relative usr/ home/matt/ /backup/ > creates /backup/usr and /backup/home/matt .
Thanks for the complicated explanation... As you've guessed I have a pretty thin understanding of how that works. I haven't really understood all you had to say yet and will need to go thru it a few times and experiment with it. I always have trouble with visualizing things... probaby partially dyslexic or something. However It can do more than your saying there I think when symlinks are involved it can have unexpected results. See this thread on gmane that nobody responded too. You'll notice I had an even murkier understanding then but still what was happening was a "really confusing directory structure": http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rsnapshot.general/742 -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html