On 14 Nov 2000, Technical Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there some way to force rsync to not skip files?
> I get the following when trying to back up a server:
> skipping non-regular file
> home/html/cryptotool/calendar/admin/index.phtml
rsync follows the usual unix ontology, roughly described as:
file:
directory
regular file
symlink
special file
fifo
char device
block device
socket
At a guess, this thing is a symlink; in which case you have several
options (in both senses):
-l, --links
This tells rsync to recreate symbolic links on the
remote system to be the same as the local system.
Without this option, all symbolic links are
skipped.
-L, --copy-links
This tells rsync to treat symbolic links just like
ordinary files.
--copy-unsafe-links
This tells rsync to treat symbolic links that point
outside the source tree like ordinary files. Abso-
lute symlinks are also treated like ordinary files,
and so are any symlinks in the source path itself
when --relative is used.
--safe-links
This tells rsync to ignore any symbolic links which
point outside the destination tree. All absolute
symlinks are also ignored. Using this option in
conjunction with --relative may give unexpected
results.
Also, although this would be pretty wierd in your situation:
-D, --devices
This option causes rsync to transfer character and
block device information to the remote system to
recreate these devices. This option is only avail-
able to the super-user.
As a shortcut:
-a, --archive
This is equivalent to -rlptgoD. It is a quick way
of saying you want recursion and want to preserve
everything.
Hope that helps,
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