Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 11:56 +0100, eric casteleijn wrote:
Did how the -K switch works change in v. 3.0.3? I upgraded my Ubuntu
yesterday, and my rsync script is suddenly behaving very differently:
I have a large folder structure that I sync between to machines with the
following switches:
rsync -avzK --delete source target
This *used* to mean that if some directories on the target machine were
actually symlinks to somewhere else, rsync just traversed those symlinks
and treated them as normal directories.
After upgrading to 3.0.3, however, rsync deletes the symlink, then
starts copying the source directory with the same name in its place.
You are right, the combination of -K, --delete and incremental recursion
is broken. I'm guessing the incremental recursion is interfering with
the ability of the chunk of code near the end of make_file to recognize
when a symlink found on the filesystem should be treated as a directory
for the purpose of --delete matching. I will look into fixing this.
A workaround is to disable incremental recursion with --no-i-r.
Thanks for the speedy reply, (and for confirming I haven't gone crazy ;)
The work does the trick for me.
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- eric casteleijn
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