[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi! > > I am running rsync 2.6.4 (on Debian sarge) and I am experiencing a > strange behaviour. > > I am trying to create an identical filetree on the same filesystems with > the single files being hardlinks to the source like this: > > rsync -vaH --progress --delete --stats --numeric-ids -x > --link-dest=/path/to/filetree/ /path/to/filetree/ /path/to/current/ > > /path/to is one filesystem. This creates hardlinks for the files in > /path/to/filetree/ in /path/to/current/ > > When calling rsync with relative paths like this: > > cd /path/to; rsync -vaH --progress --delete --stats --numeric-ids > -x --link-dest=./filetree/ ./filetree/ ./current/ > > rsync does not create hardlinks but copies the files instead. > > Is this intentional behaviour?
If my understanding is right, that would attempt to link files from ./current/./filetree You maybe want a --link-dest=../filetree (Flames invited if I've got this wrong) > > Greetings > -- > Robert Sander > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
