Re: Question on folder sync with "directory name translation"

2015-06-10 Thread Gionata Boccalini
GMT+02:00 Michael Johnson - MJ : > Should be as long as you don't have other symlinks in the tree. > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015, 15:14 Gionata Boccalini > wrote: > >> OK , but then the solution with symlinks is equivalent, just with the >> right options for rsync. >>

Re: Question on folder sync with "directory name translation"

2015-06-08 Thread Gionata Boccalini
ell. >> But this scenario seems unlikely, it was probably silly to even mention it. >> >> If there is another case I have not considered I would be very interested >> to know where this requirement comes from. >> >> Thanks! Hope there was something useful for you

Re: Question on folder sync with "directory name translation"

2015-06-08 Thread Gionata Boccalini
enario seems unlikely, it was probably silly to even mention it. > > If there is another case I have not considered I would be very interested > to know where this requirement comes from. > > Thanks! Hope there was something useful for you in all this. :) > > On Sun, Jun 7, 201

Re: Question on folder sync with "directory name translation"

2015-06-08 Thread Gionata Boccalini
o the names actually > match (these could be added and removed right before and after the rsync > respectively if you don't want them around later.) Symlinks are tricky with > rsync. You have to set the options right, so I'm not sure of the exact > details. > > > On 06/

Question on folder sync with "directory name translation"

2015-06-07 Thread Gionata Boccalini
Hello everyone, I'm new to this mailing list but I have been using rsync for some years up to now. I'm trying to synchronize two directory trees, but I want a special behavior that I didn't find on the net nor in the manual (or maybe there is a combination of options to get what I want but I could