Preserving symbolic links on the destination machine

[Dave Dykstra]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:08:35PM -0500, Duncan Galloway wrote:
> 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
> 

Not that I can think of.  Can you just exclude those links with --exclude?

- Dave Dykstra