Re: Target: following file symlinks?

2012-07-20 Thread Yuriy Davygora
Seen that, tried that, did not work, it deleted all my links and started downloading the files again. Apparently, judging by the title of this option it only follows directory symlinks, I have file symlinks. A little reading of my exact question might be appropriate, would it not? Anyway, I h

Re: Target: following file symlinks?

2012-07-20 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Yuriy Davygora wrote: > So, my question remains: can rsync somehow handle symlinks at the target > machine, or should I use some other tools? > A little Googling and/or RTFM would be appropriate, would it not? Check the man page on: --copy-dirlinks Or Google for an

Re: Target: following file symlinks?

2012-07-20 Thread Yuriy Davygora
Thanks for your answer, but, unfortunately nothing you suggested is possible (I am just a user and not the admin), and, besides, isn't that a little bit overkill? This procedure with symlinking randomly spread files is standard at our place and all the software we use to analyze those data can han

Re: Target: following file symlinks?

2012-07-20 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It sounds like you need lvm2 or whatever the equiv is for whatever OS you are running. Or maybe RAID (or both). On 07/20/12 13:10, Yuriy Davygora wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to synchronize data from a remote machine (ssh) to my > local one u

Target: following file symlinks?

2012-07-20 Thread Yuriy Davygora
Dear all, I am trying to synchronize data from a remote machine (ssh) to my local one using rsync (pure scp would overwrite everything every time). The problem is, however, that due to the size of data and available storage, I have to distribute it over several hdd's. For that I have a script