On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:36 -0600, lewis butler wrote: > Ah... /etc/postfix is a symlink to /usr/local/etc/postfix/ > > > Lewis, if you want symlinks in backups to point to the proper items > > in the backup, you > > could make the original symlinks relative. > > ah... well, that would be ugly
How so? You just have to put the appropriate number of ../ in front. "symlinks -c" will even do this for you. > > Alternatively, you could > > avoid all symlink surprises by using a daemon on the receiving side > > with > > "munge symlinks" enabled. > > This is a local rsync, so there's no receiving daemon. I meant that you could set up and use a receiving daemon if you wish to take advantage of the "munge symlinks" feature. > Is there anything else I can do other than remember which paths are > symlinked? I have quite a lot of /usr/local/etc/ linked to /etc/ for > convenience (postfix, apache2/ -> httpd/, etc) ... not that I am > likely to forget NOW. I gave you two options but you didn't like either of them... > Maybe I don't need the -H option after all... The -l option (which is part of -a) governs symlinks, not -H. Matt
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