--link-dest mostly useless on a server without chroot

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sat Mar 27 19:49:18 GMT 2004


On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 02:13:50PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> Cool!  I assume it's something like
> 
>     rsync --link-dest /current /mydirtobackup server::backup/new
> 
> ie, you don't put the module name in the link-dest.

Correct.  It works the same when the module is hosted chrooted or not --
i.e. '/' is the root of the module.

> Hopefully, this is documented.  :-)

There is a mention of this in the docs that I added.

..wayne..


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