Problem with symlinks

[Thomas Ebert]

Hi,

currently I'm trying to extend my existing backup concept but I have 
issues due to symlinks.


rsync has problems with symlinks. First some background information:
I regularly back up my / and /home from my desktop PC and my netbook to 
my Synology DiskStation (500GB) using rsync 3.0.6 with this script: 
http://pastebin.com/m43d4e353 . This works without any error messages. 
On the DS are also stored other files from two windows machines.

The DS has a built in backup feature that unfortunately has problem with 
hard links so I stripped down my script to directly run rsync 3.0.4 on 
the DS:

|# Backup source device/share/directory/etc
BACKUP_SOURCE=/volume1/thomas/

# Backup destination device/directory
BACKUP_TO_DEV=/volumeUSB1/usbshare/thomas_backup/

rsync -q -v -axH --no-inc-recursive --delete --exclude="@eaDir" 
$BACKUP_SOURCE $BACKUP_TO_DEV|

This handles the hard links (-H) but now I have problems with symlinks. 
When running the script I receive a lot of error messages from this type:
rsync: 
open(backup/sammy-root/2009-07-29/usr/share/pixmaps/cxassoc-cxoffice-0-application_x-crossover-exe.png) 
failed!!: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: open(backup/sammy-root/2009-07-29/usr/share/qt/mkspecs/default) 
failed!!: Is a directory (21)
rsync: 
open(backup/sammy-root/2009-07-29/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix/luatools) 
failed!!: No such file or directory (2)

Unfortunately the DS doesn't support the -v option so I have no "normal" 
output.

When I browse to the backup destination the files a there and it seems 
they point correctly to original file.

So, is this something I can ignore or can this be fixed?

Thanks in advance,

Thomas