On Mon 23 Apr 2012, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > On 04/23, Paul Slootman wrote: > > On Sun 22 Apr 2012, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > > > > > rsync -Ha --link-dest=/media/4tb/bak/panic-2012-01-01 > > > /media/2tb/bak/panic-2012-02-01 /media/4tb/bak/ > > > > > > root@dancer:/media/4tb/bak# ls -l panic*/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg > > > -rw------- 15 darxus darxus 100772 1999-09-14 21:19 > > > panic-2011-12-20/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg > > > -rw------- 15 darxus darxus 100772 1999-09-14 21:19 > > > panic-2012-01-01/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg > > > -rw------- 1 darxus darxus 100772 1999-09-14 21:19 > > > panic-2012-02-01/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg > > > > > > Why isn't it hard linking? This is driving me nuts. > > > > > > When I do --itemize-changes, for that file, it says: > > > >f+++++++++ panic-2012-02-01/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg > > > > There is no file "panic-2012-02-01/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg" in the > > --link-dest directory. There _is_ a home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg file, > > but that's not what's being looked for. > > That would make sense IF 0000_latest.jpg got written as > /media/4tb/bak/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg (omitting "panic-2012-02-01").
No, that's not true. > But it didn't, it was written as I expected to > /media/2tb/bak/panic-2012-02-01/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg > > Surely this is a bug? No. If you pass "<whatever>/panic-2012-02-01" as a source, then all transmitted filenames WILL begin with panic-2012-02-01 . Well documented, although you may need to be intimately familiar with the docs to know this :) > Created intentionally to test my sanity. > > > Try modifying your command to: > > > > rsync -Ha --link-dest=/media/4tb/bak/panic-2012-01-01/ > > /media/2tb/bak/panic-2012-02-01/ /media/4tb/bak/panic-2012-02-01/ > > > > (Whenever in doubt, use trailing slashes :-) > > That did it. Thank you very much. > > Bug, right? Again, NO. Because of the trailing slash in the source argument, the filenames transmitted will begin with whatever is _below_ the panic-2012-01-01 directory. Hence the matching with the filenames in the link-dest dir will succeed. Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
