Question on folder sync with "directory name translation"

[Joe]

The symlinks was mostly a shot in the dark. They're often useful when 
you need synonyms.

The --fuzzy: I believe once handles different names and the second one 
adds different locations.

I have thought about using it for issues I have reorganizing collections 
of media files, but never got around to actually testing it.

Joe

On 06/08/2015 03:40 PM, Gionata Boccalini wrote:
> Thanks Joe for the reply:
> 1) why do you say to use fuzzy twice? Do you mean in both directions?
> 2) I have to mention that the remote system is a Synology NAS, which 
> for whatever reason (I can't think about), doesn't support symlinks, 
> even in the same disk volume or "share"!
>
>     But I could make some symlinks in the local system (archlinux) and
>     user exclude filters to remove the directories I don't want to
>     synchronize.
>
>
> But still there is no way of doing this with rsync options alone?
> /_______________
>
> Gionata Boccalini/
>
> 2015-06-07 19:28 GMT+02:00 Joe <josephj at main.nc.us 
> <mailto:josephj at main.nc.us>>:
>
>     I'm sure one of the experts will have a better answer, but two
>     things come to mind as options to explore:
>     1) Use --fuzzy twice so files which are the same but possibly with
>     different names and locations are synced
>     2) Use some sort of symlinks on the destination so the names
>     actually match (these could be added and removed right before and
>     after the rsync respectively if you don't want them around later.)
>     Symlinks are tricky with rsync. You have to set the options right,
>     so I'm not sure of the exact details.
>
>
>     On 06/07/2015 12:38 PM, Gionata Boccalini wrote:
>
>         Hello everyone,
>
>         I'm new to this mailing list but I have been using rsync for
>         some years up to now.
>         I'm trying to synchronize two directory trees, but I want a
>         special behavior that I didn't find on the net nor in the
>         manual (or maybe there is a combination of options to get what
>         I want but I couldn't find it).
>
>         Tree A is like:
>
>         A
>           *
>           *
>            FolderA
>           *
>           *
>
>         And tree B (on a remote filesystem) is like:
>
>         B
>           *
>           *
>           *
>            FolderB
>           *
>           *
>
>
>         I have to synchronize everything in one rsync run, like
>         rysnc  -arv  A/  B/
>
>         but I want FolderA to be synchronized with FolderB.
>         They must contain the same files but have a different name! I
>         want something like a "directory name translation" in the
>         rsync run...
>         Is it possible? Do you see any another way of doing this? (A
>         part of using two rsync runs....)
>         Please let me know if I didn't explain the problem correctly
>         or you need further information.
>         Thank you for your attention and time.
>         Best regards.
>         /_______________
>
>         Gionata Boccalini/
>
>
>
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