Greetings! I've ran into a couple difficulties for a particular rsync use-case I'm involved in implementing - hoping someone here might be able to clue me in!
I've got an existing linux box, with a particular directory that needs to be mirrored onto another server, into a different base path on that server - i.e.: server1:/var/lib/bar/ to server2:/backupdir/var/lib/bar/ Now, server1:/var/lib/bar/ contains hundreds of files which are each symlink'd to one of a few files in the same directory: /var/lib/bar/base_file1 /var/lib/bar/base_file2 /var/lib/bar/base_file3 /var/lib/bar/foo -> /var/lib/bar/base_file1 /var/lib/bar/bar -> /var/lib/bar/base_file3 /var/lib/bar/blah -> /var/lib/bar/base_file2 /var/lib/bar/goober -> /var/lib/bar/base_file2 The first problem is that these symlinks (on server1) are all using the fully-qualified path - which is causing me problems because /var/lib/bar/ doesn't exist on server2, but rather in /backupdir/var/lib/bar/ ... Is there a way of forcing rsync to link these relatively rather than fully-qualitive? So that (for an exampe) the rsync from server1:/var/lib/bar/foo to server2 ends up like: server2:/backupdir/var/lib/bar/foo -> server2:/backupdir/var/lib/bar/base_file1 rather than (what it's currently doing): server2:/backupdir/var/lib/bar/foo -> server2:/var/lib/bar/base_file1 (...which results in a broken link) Second question: Is there a way of using --exclude to reference symlink _targets_, rather than the filename itself? For example: /var/lib/bar/foo -> /var/lib/bar/base_file1 /var/lib/bar/blah -> /var/lib/bar/base_file2 /var/lib/bar/goober -> /var/lib/bar/base_file2 I want to use an --exclude which specifies: "all symlinks that link to /var/lib/bar/base_file1 and /var/lib/bar/base_file2" So, --exclude="foo blah" isn't what I'm after, because that will fail to contain 'goober'... remember we're talking hundreds of symlinks - pointing to just a couple/few target files; my --exclude would simply be unmanageable. Many thanks for any advice/solutions! -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
