Hello Wayne
Thank you very much for trying to help,
I have the following three observations:
1) As recommended, I have searched the manual of rsync in order to try
to find your interpretation about what is going on but the only relevant
fact that I was able to find was how rsync defines
Read the section on --copy-unsafe-symlinks and make the change I
recommended. That's all there is to it. When a dir name is in the
transfer, it is not the top of the transfer tree. It's parent is. This is
pretty standard rsync stuff, where trailing slashes are very important to
rsync.
..wayne..
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