Hello all
I have a problem with the --copy-unsafe-links option. My environment is
presented and the end of the message. I have the following directory
structure (I hope the that it will be visible; commands below)
TST/
+-- outside1
| |
| +-- outside1-file.txt
|
+-- outside2-file.txt
|
+-- tree
+-- inside.txt
|
+-- lnk-ans.txt -> ../../ans.txt
|
+-- o1-file.txt -> ../outside1/outside1-file.txt
|
+-- o1-folder -> ../outside1
|
+-- o2-file.txt -> ../outside2-file.txt
The directory structure can be created with the following commands:
mkdir -p TST/outside1 TST/tree
echo "outside1" > TST/outside1/outside1-file.txt
echo "outside2" > TST/outside2-file.txt
echo "inside" > TST/tree/inside.txt
(cd TST/tree/; ln -s ../outside1 ./o1-folder; ln -s
../outside1/outside1-file.txt ./o1-file.txt;)
(cd TST/tree/; ln -s ../outside2-file.txt ./o2-file.txt;)
(cd TST/tree/; ln -s ../../ans.txt ./lnk-ans.txt)
Now if I execute the commands
$ cd TST
$ rsync --copy-unsafe-links -avz --delete tree XXX
sending incremental file list
copying unsafe symlink "tree/lnk-ans.txt" -> "../../ans.txt"
created directory XXX
tree/
tree/inside.txt
tree/lnk-ans.txt
tree/o1-file.txt -> ../outside1/outside1-file.txt
tree/o1-folder -> ../outside1
tree/o2-file.txt -> ../outside2-file.txt
sent 440 bytes received 93 bytes 1,066.00 bytes/sec
total size is 147 speedup is 0.28
As we can see from the output rsync makes a copy of tree/lnk-ans.txt
According to the documentation this is correct. --copy-unsafe-links
instructs rsync to make copies of the files outside the copied tree.
But the same should happen for
tree/o1-file.txt
tree/o1-folder
tree/o2-file.txt
because all these symlinks point outside tree.
am I missing something? Is this the intended behavior? According to
the documentation (man rsync) I think it is not.
Thank you very much.
Cristian
-------- BEGIN ENVIRONMNENT ---------
$ rsync --version
rsync version 3.1.3 protocol version 31
Copyright (C) 1996-2018 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
append, ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes, prealloc
Operating System: Debian 10
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