rsync'ing a directory with nothing but symlinks

[Gerardo Herzig]

Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 16:37 -0300, Gerardo Herzig wrote:
>> Hi all. This looks like a common question. I want to backup a dir, in
>> which i put some symlinks, so it looks like
>>
>> machinegun:/tmp/daily_backup # ls -la
>> total 8
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2010-02-17 17:41 .
>> drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4096 2010-02-17 17:30 ..
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   16 2010-02-17 17:41 cgi-bin -> /srv/www/cgi-bin
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    4 2010-02-17 17:17 etc -> /etc
>>
>> This is the rsyncd.conf
>> [backup]
>> path = /tmp/daily_backup
>> comment = Dir for backupear
>> auth users = backup
>> hosts allow = 10.10.8.105
>> secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
>> read only = true
>>
>>
>> So, when i try to rsync from 10.10.8.105:
>> gherzig at 10.10.8.105:/tmp/bkp> rsync -avz  --copy-links
>> backup at machinegun::backup .
>> receiving file list ... symlink has no referent: "/cgi-bin" (in backup)
>> rsync: readlink_stat("/etc" (in backup)) failed: Too many levels of
>> symbolic links (40)
>> done
>> ./
>>
>> sent 71 bytes  received 269 bytes  680.00 bytes/sec
>> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
>> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
>> main.c(1397) [generator=2.6.9]
>>
>>
>> So, looks like 2 diff errors, but no one make sense to me.
> 
> By default, the daemon chroots into the root directory of the module,
> which is causing the symlinks to be interpreted differently than you
> intend.  Try setting "use chroot = no".
> 
Thanks Matt, but still no luck. After "chroot = no" (and chroot =
false), and restarting the service, i get the same thing:

mataco:/backup/files/vchiriguano # rsync -avz --copy-links
backup at machinegun::backup .
receiving file list ... symlink has no referent: "/cgi-bin" (in backup)
rsync: readlink_stat("/etc" (in backup)) failed: Too many levels of
symbolic links (40)
done

sent 61 bytes  received 259 bytes  640.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1158)

Im stucked here :(

Gerardor