DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7618] symlinks and --link-dest

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7618





------- Comment #7 from the_majkl at seznam.cz  2010-08-14 15:44 CST -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > (In reply to comment #4)
> > > 
> > > You can also do the test by hand:
> > > 
> > > $ ln -s nonexistent broken
> > > $ ln broken broken2
> > > 
> > 
> > # ln -s nonexistent broken
> > # ln broken broken2
> > # ll non* brok*
> > ls: non*: No such file or directory
> > lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 11 Aug 14 11:01 broken -> nonexistent
> > lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root 11 Aug 14 11:01 broken2 -> nonexistent
> 
> Was that on the HP-UX server?  If so, then it's strange that the rsync package
> you installed was not configured to hard-link symlinks, but there's nothing we
> can do about third-party packages.  If you build your own rsync and it still
> doesn't want to hard-link symlinks, we can look into why.
> 

No no, this was on the client side, on backup server (linux).
Once again, rsync works as expected/needed, it copy symlinks (from hpux) as
symlinks (to linux). Look one more time on the first posting ("second transfer
for check" did not report new symlink). But WHEN I MOVE the synced directory
(on linux) AND LINK (--link-dest) another rsync backup into it, the symlinks
are copied/reported as changed/new/anything. 

Mike


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