Overwriting symlinks on OSX

[David Liontooth]

PS. Forgot version info:

Linux# rsync -v
rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29

OSX$ rsync -v
rsync  version 2.6.3  protocol version 28

David Liontooth wrote:
> I'm trying to rsync files to a set of symlinked directories on an XServe
> running OS X.
>
> The directories look like this:
>
> tna at csx:~/2/2006$ l
> total 80
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 tna  tna    39 Feb 24 13:18 2006-01 ->
> /Volumes/CSArchiveArray001/2006/2006-01
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 tna  tna    39 Feb 24 13:18 2006-02 ->
> /Volumes/CSArchiveArray001/2006/2006-02
>
> When I run rsync from Linux in --dry-run mode, the results are correct:
>
> $ rsync -arvn --ignore-existing --exclude-from=/db/nosyncc /db/2006/ -e
> ssh x:~/2/2006/
> building file list ... done
> 2006-08/2006-08-12/2006-08-12_0430_KNBC_Channel_4_News.txt
> 2006-08/2006-08-12/2006-08-12_0430_KTTV_A_Current_Affair.txt
> 2006-08/2006-08-17/2006-08-17_0500_KABC_Eyewitness_News.txt
> 2006-08/2006-08-17/2006-08-17_0500_KTTV_Morning_News_at_5.txt
> 2006-08/2006-08-17/2006-08-17_0600_KTTV_Morning_News_at_6.txt
> 2006-10/2006-10-29/2006-10-29_0800_KTTV-FOX_News_Sunday_with_Chris_Wallace.txt
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> sent 313109 bytes  received 40 bytes  208766.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 445239817  speedup is 1421.81
>
> When I do the actual run, the symlinks are overwritten and new
> directories are created; details below.
> Can I prevent this behavior and tell rsync to respect the symlinks, as
> it does in --dry-run mode?
>
> Dave
>
> $ rsync -arv --ignore-existing --exclude-from=/db/nosyncc /db/2006/ -e
> ssh x:~/2/2006/
> building file list ... done
> ./
> 2006-01/
> 2006-01/2006-01-01/
> 2006-01/2006-01-01/2006-01-01_0430_KTTV-FOX_A_Current_Affair.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-01/2006-01-01_0500_KABC_Eyewitness_News.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-01/2006-01-01_0500_KTTV-FOX_Morning_News_at_5.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-01/2006-01-01_0800_KNBC_Meet_the_Press.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-01/2006-01-01_0800_KTTV-FOX_News_Sunday_with_Chris_Wallace.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-01/2006-01-01_1730_KABC_World_News_Tonight.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-01/2006-01-01_1900_KCBS_60_Minutes.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-01/2006-01-01_2200_KTTV-FOX_Ten_OClock_News.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-01/2006-01-01_2300_KABC_Eyewitness_News.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_0430_KNBC_Channel_4_News.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_0430_KTTV-FOX_A_Current_Affair.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_0500_KABC_Eyewitness_News.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_0500_KTTV-FOX_Morning_News_at_5.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_0530_KCET_BBC_World_News.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_0600_KTTV-FOX_Morning_News_at_6.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_0700_KTTV-FOX_Morning_News_at_7.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_1700_KNBC_Channel_4_News_at_5.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_1830_KABC_World_News_Tonight.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_1900_KCET_Newshour_with_Jim_Lehrer.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_2200_KTTV-FOX_Ten_OClock_News.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_2300_KABC_Eyewitness_News.txt
> 2006-01/2006-01-02/2006-01-02_2330_KABC_Nightline.txt
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