I'm not certain what result you want, but rsync will do your bidding. --copy-links
makes it grab the file the link points to, instead of creating the link,
--copy-unsafe-links does the same, including for links that point OUTSIDE of the
directory tree
you were looking at. --safe-links prevents the creation of these broken links you're
getting, in that it pretends that links that point outside of your directory tree
don't exist... they simply don't appear in the mirror. Without knowing more about
your specific setup, I would guess that your broken links appear because they are
absolute-path links (start with /), and you're rsyncing into a different absolute
path. Example: source dir = /site, destination dir=/pub/site. symlink in /site/html
named images points to /site/images. you rsync this over to /pub/site, and it looks
for /site/images, which doesn't exist. If the tree needs to be portable, you should
use relative links. /site/html would point to ../images, then it doesn't matter
where it lives, as long as the rest of the tree comes along with it.
I hope one of these scenarios solves your problem.
Tim Conway
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hi all
I tried to do a mirror with rsync, but the structure of directory that
I want to download has some symbolic links,which they are maintained.
The files into these directories aren't downloaded.
Is there another way to download these files or directories ?
Best regards,
Epi
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