Windows Trouble with --link-dest set: "file not found" when rsync tries to create hard link

[Ming Zhang]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 13:57 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008 9:45 AM, Ming Zhang <blackmagic02881 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 00:14 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > I have great luck running rsync from one linux system to another, or
> > > from a windows system (with cwRsync) to a linux system.
> > >
> > > But when I try to do an rsync backup from one directory on a Windows
> > > system to another, it fails.  The cwRsync says its version is 2.6.9.
> > >
> >
> > does window ntfs ever support hard link??? i do not think so...
> >
> 
> Yes, ntfs has hard and soft links.  hard links on directories are
> called "junctions"

soft link is totally different from hard link. that junction on
directory is not the same meaning of hard link in Unix concept.


> 
> http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284
> 
> http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/hard-links.phtml
> 
> I suppose my question should be whether rsync and cwRsync can navigate
> them.  Otherwise, somebody needs to put a big bright warning note
> somewhere around here.

sorry i donot know.

> 
> PJ
> 
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