On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 22:26 +0000, Corey wrote: > 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)
No, rsync does not support this kind of symlink rewriting, unless you want to hack the "munge symlinks" code to prepend /backupdir instead of /rsyncd-munged/ and remove the check that the prepended directory doesn't exist. In this situation, I would just change the source symlinks to relative paths. If there's a reason why you don't want to do that, tell me and I might be able to figure something out. > Second question: > > Is there a way of using --exclude to reference symlink _targets_, rather > than the filename itself? No. There's an enhancement request for this capability: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1670 Matt
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