link-dest question

[doug at safeport.com]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Wayne Davison wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:33 PM, <doug at safeport.com> wrote:
>        rsync -vaxH --numeric-ids --delete --exclude=/home/apache/logs \
>         --link-dest=/mnt/200912/newharbor/home -e ssh newharbor.safeport.com:/home \
>         201001/newharbor/home/
> 
> 
> Is that newharbor/home/home dir really desired?  Without a trailing slash on 
> the source, the "home" dir is part of the transfer, and will be expected to 
> exist inside the link-dest dir and will be created inside the destination dir. 
>  

The command itself is what I want. E.g., backing up all user data on a 
webserver. My isssue is that --link-dest has no effect. That some files are the 
same with matching timestamps and are not hardlinked is shown by the following:

artemis:/mnt# diff 
/mnt/201001/newharbor/home/5yearmission/htdocs/newvoyages.com/JeffHayes/.IHW_DVD_Cover.jpg.RLZqbg 
/mnt/200912/newharbor/home/5yearmission/htdocs/newvoyages.com/JeffHayes/.IHW_DVD_Cover.jpg.RLZqbg

artemis:/mnt# ls -ilT 
/mnt/201001/newharbor/home/5yearmission/htdocs/newvoyages.com/JeffHayes/.IHW_DVD_Cover.jpg.RLZqbg
143688454 -rw-------  1 root  2817  6291456 Nov 27 10:30:26 2006 
/mnt/201001/newharbor/home/5yearmission/htdocs/newvoyages.com/JeffHayes/.IHW_DVD_Cover.jpg.RLZqbg

artemis:/mnt# ls -ilT 
/mnt/200912/newharbor/home/5yearmission/htdocs/newvoyages.com/JeffHayes/.IHW_DVD_Cover.jpg.RLZqbg
140281632 -rw-------  1 root  2817  6291456 Nov 27 10:30:26 2006 
/mnt/200912/newharbor/home/5yearmission/htdocs/newvoyages.com/JeffHayes/.IHW_DVD_Cover.jpg.RLZqbg

My question[s] is/are:
   does one of the options conflict with link-dest?
   is the command correct, ie does anything in it override link-dest?
   is this a know bug in the version I am using?
   ...

> If it is not, either add a trailing slash to the source, or remove the 
> trailing "home" from both the link-dest arg and the destination.
> 
> ..wayne..
> 
>

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