question about --link-dest and the rsync protocol
Anthony LaTorre
tlatorre9 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 22:28:15 UTC 2025
Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I tried:
--link-dest=/snapshots/rsync_test/last
and it still does not find it.
On Sun, Jan 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM Paul Slootman via rsync
<rsync at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat 11 Jan 2025, Anthony LaTorre via rsync wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your quick response. The rsyncd.conf file looks like:
> >
> > charset = utf-8
> > [user]
> > path = /c/user
> > comment = ""
> > use chroot = true
>
> Note the chroot... So "/" equals /c/user
>
> > uid = root
> > gid = root
> > read only = false
> > auth users = admin
> >
> > I'm still confused about how to specify the path. The actual UNIX path is:
> >
> > /c/user/snapshots/rsync_test/last
> >
> > I've tried:
> >
> > --link-dest=snapshots/rsync_test/last
> > --link-dest=./snapshots/rsync_test/last
> > --link-dest=../last
>
> I would assume --link-dest=/snapshots/rsync_test/last
> should work.
>
>
> Paul
>
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