Difference in --link-dest.

Maxim Kudelya maxim at lingnu.com
Fri Jul 22 22:01:45 GMT 2005


Hello,
Why if I do in my home directory:

rsync -av --link-dest=sources/ sources/ backup.0/

that's don't make hardlinks, but copy.

rsync -av --link-dest=/home/maxim/sources/ /home/maxim/sources/ /home/maxim/backup.0/

is work properly and I get hardlinks.
I'm use Debian 3.1 and rsync version 2.6.4  protocol version 29.

Thanks,
Maxim.



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