Hi. I found and reported a bug about a year ago regarding symbolic links but haven't seen any mention of it since and it is still present in 2.6.1-pre2.
Just want to make sure it isn't forgotten. It can be reproduced by synchronizing two directories, one of which contains a normal file and the other has a symlink of the same name. With the archive, update and backup options set, rsync will always replace the file with the symlink even when the file is newer (and it will not save a backup either). This can lead to unexpected loss of data. In other words: mkdir foo1 foo2 ln -s apples foo1/oranges touch foo1/apples foo2/apples foo2/oranges rsync -avub foo1/ foo2/ and voila, the file foo2/oranges is overwritten by the symlink. Thanks, peter __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html