On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:14:39AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:22:08PM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > Is there a way to have it skip hard links when doing an rsync? > > If you mean you want to skip any file that has more than one link, you > could do this: > > find . -type f -links +1 >/path/exclude.txt > > Then, you'd use the exclude.txt file via the --exclude-from option. > > However, you mentioned loops, and that makes me think that the problem > is not with file loops, but dirs looping back in the hierarchy. The > above won't help you if that is the case (since find will loop too).
Indeed. This is from watching rsync through strace since I wasn't sure why it was taking so long to do an rsync. It seems I need to collect more data to see what's going on. sri -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
