Preserving symbolic links on the destination machine
Duncan Galloway
duncan at space.mit.edu
Fri Nov 9 04:08:35 EST 2001
Hi there,
I'm trying to keep my laptop up-to-date with my desktop. For various
reasons I have a number of directories which are soft-linked to
directories on different machines on the network to which my desktop is
connected. When I sync to my laptop with a command like
rsync -vazu -e ssh ~/* --delete <destination> -L --copy-unsafe-links
it does what I want, which is to copy the symbolically linked
directories on the desktop to actual directories on the laptop. However,
when I copy them back to the desktop using just
rsync -vazu,
rsync removes the symbolic link and creates a new subdirectory under the
destination directory and puts the files there, rather than following
the existing symbolic link. Is there some way to fix this,so that rsync
will follow an existing symbolic link on the destination?
Thanks,
Duncan
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