fully-qualified symlinks & --exclude question

[Corey]

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 12:02:26 am Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 22:26 +0000, Corey wrote:
<snip>
> > Is there a way of forcing rsync to link these relatively rather than
> > fully-qualitive? 
<snip>
> No, rsync does not support this kind of symlink rewriting, unless you
> want to hack the "munge symlinks" code to prepend /backupdir instead
> of /rsyncd-munged/ and remove the check that the prepended directory
> doesn't exist.
>
> In this situation, I would just change the source symlinks to relative
> paths.  If there's a reason why you don't want to do that, tell me and I
> might be able to figure something out.
>

THanks -- I ended up with your suggestion to just change the symlinks
to relative on my own (using find and readlink); that worked easily
enough... can't expect rsync to do _everything_ for me... <grin>


> > Second question:
> >
> > Is there a way of using --exclude to reference symlink _targets_, rather
> > than the filename itself?
>
> No.  There's an enhancement request for this capability:
>
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1670
>

I'll add my original use-case to that feature request, in case it's useful -
but I was able to get around this issue in an entirely different way: luckily
for me, I was able to simply remove or relocate those other extraneous
symlinks before setting up the rsync jobs, so that made things easy - rather
than working with things as they were, I was fortunate enough to be able to
modify the environment to be more suitable for the rsync.


Beers!