cp -al issues

[Tim Moore]

Max Kipness wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I'm having some strange issues when using cp in my rsync script. It
> seems there may be links breaking or something.
>  
> Before running the actual rsync I run the following command in my
> script:
>  
> cp -al /backup/Current /backup/$prevday
>  
> Then I rsync from the source to /Current
>  
> So shouldn't all my previous days have hard links back to the original
> /backup directory?

Perhaps you are thinking of a soft link?  See the man pages link(2) and 
symlink(2).