--fuzzy works with --link-dest?

Robert Siemer Robert.Siemer-rsync at backsla.sh
Sat Aug 26 00:44:23 GMT 2006


On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:20:15PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> No, --fuzzy only looks in the same directory as the destination file.
> There was a rather heated debate about whether it should look in
> --*-dest directories on bug 3392:
>    https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3392

I've read it now. - I don't really care how, but it would be a nice idea
to have a possibility to trigger the --fuzzy code on a --link-dest dir.

With the dirvish backup program (and similar hard-linking backup
solutions) the destination directory is empty when starting the
transfer... 


Regards,
		Robert


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