can't manage to get --link-dest working.

[jw schultz]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:53:30PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can't manage to get rsync's --link-dest option working.
> Here is a step by step script which doesn't produce the good results.
> 
> # create test dir
> mkdir testrsync
> cd testrsync
> mkdir orig
> echo "abcd" > orig/testfile
> 
> # create a mirror
> rsync -apog orig/ mirror/
> 
> # create another mirror using link-dest
> rsync -apog --link-dest=mirror/ orig/ mirror2/
> 
> # look at inodes
> ls -li mirror/
> ls -li mirror2/
> 
> The inodes differs, even if timestamps, modes and size contents don't.
> 
> What's wrong ?

If using a relative path for --link-dest it, like the path
for --compare-dest is relative to the destination directory.

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