simlinks and options

Carlos Molina Garcia cmolina at net-uno.net
Sat Feb 22 03:15:59 EST 2003


Greetings.

I wrote a script that make remote backups with rsync. I have 2 main 
problems with it

1) I want that the destination directory (on the repository machine) 
recreate the backed up file path and it permission (I use -R here )

2) Is there a way to "follow" all the links using -R and -a parameters..??

Currently I am using something like this.

rsync -al --delete --copy-unsafe-links --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh -R 
--delete-excluded -vv --delete /etc/* root at 127.0.0.1:/usr/local/src/


Lokk ath some part of the output


copying unsafe symlink "/etc/php4/lib" -> "/usr/lib/apache-extramodules"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/rmt" -> "/usr/sbin/rmt"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/keymaps" -> 
"/etc/init.d/keymaps"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/clock" -> "/etc/init.d/clock"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/localmount" -> 
"/etc/init.d/localmount"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/consolefont" -> 
"/etc/init.d/consolefont"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/modules" -> 
"/etc/init.d/modules"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/hostname" -> 
"/etc/init.d/hostname"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/net.lo" -> "/etc/init.d/net.lo"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/serial" -> "/etc/init.d/serial"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/urandom" -> 
"/etc/init.d/urandom"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/checkroot" -> 
"/etc/init.d/checkroot"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/rmnologin" -> 
"/etc/init.d/rmnologin"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/bootmisc" -> 
"/etc/init.d/bootmisc"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/boot/checkfs" -> 
"/etc/init.d/checkfs"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/default/gpm" -> "/etc/init.d/gpm"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/default/local" -> "/etc/init.d/local"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/default/named" -> "/etc/init.d/named"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/default/net.eth0" -> 
"/etc/init.d/net.eth0"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/default/sysklogd" -> 
"/etc/init.d/sysklogd"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/default/netmount" -> 
"/etc/init.d/netmount"
copying unsafe symlink "/etc/runlevels/nonetwork/local" -> 
"/etc/init.d/local"

and if I see /etc on the source server
s -la /etc/runlevels/default/
total 1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          216 Feb 12 21:02 .
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root          152 Dec  3 11:45 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Dec  4 06:51 .keep
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Feb  9 16:39 gpm -> 
/etc/init.d/gpm
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Dec 31  1998 local -> 
/etc/init.d/local
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Feb 12 21:02 named -> 
/etc/init.d/named
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Dec 31  1998 net.eth0 -> 
/etc/init.d/net.eth0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Dec 31  1998 netmount -> 
/etc/init.d/netmount
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Dec 31  1998 sysklogd -> 
/etc/init.d/sysklogd



and on the /etc/ directory on the destination
  ls -la runlevels/default/
total 25
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          216 Feb 12 21:02 .
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root          152 Dec  3 11:45 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Dec  4 06:51 .keep
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          958 Feb  8 23:12 gpm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          727 Dec  4 06:51 local
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1378 Feb 11 21:00 named
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3669 Dec  4 06:51 net.eth0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2580 Dec  4 06:51 netmount
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          962 Dec 31  1998 sysklogd


Is there a way to maintain the simlinks that the source server have..??
I should use the -R flag to maintain the source server directory 
structure on the storage server...

Thanks a lot



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