Thanks, Matt for this suggestion. My version (2.6.6) doesn't have a
keep-dirlinks option (that sounds like what I want, though).
In anycase, I removed the -L, and now the structure does not get created
at all. I removed -l also, and that didn't work either. I added only the
-L back, and was left with the same behaviour -- that the symlink turns
into a directory.
So I think I'm still stuck (or I misunderstood what you said)
-Eric
Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 11:40 -0800, Eric Horne wrote:
rsync -rlptDvzL --stats --include=a/ --include=a/dir/
--include=a/dir/symlink/ --include=a/dir/symlink/dir2/
--include=a/dir/symlink/dir2/dir3/ --exclude='**' /export/stuff
remote::stuff
Since you gave the -L/--copy-links option, the sending rsync pretended
its symlink was a real directory, and since you didn't give
-K/--keep-dirlinks, the receiving rsync turned its symlink into a real
directory to match. -L overrides -l. Take out -L and it should work.
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