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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