Hi folks, I have a bunch of directories to mirror via rsync. I have lots of hardlinked files spread about these directories. Therfore I use -R (--relative) and -H.
so far ok but: I create symlinks to the source-directories via script because src-dirs have changing names (date and time of backup) and I want to have constant directory names on target. How can I achieve that? I thought -k (--copy-dirlinks) would work but this replaces ALL symlinks to dirs which exist in the copied tree to real directories. I just want to have the "symlink dir conversion" done on the starting directories dir1 and dir2 cd /tmp/backup rsync -RaH --copy-dirlinks --stats --delete --progress dir1 dir2 dest/ dir1 and dir2 are symlinks to directories which contents have to be mirrored I want to have real directories dest/dir1 and dest/dir2 after rsyncing and not only the symlink copied. Using -k (--copy-dirlinks) the following hapens: src1/usr/bin/X11 -> . becomes dest/src1/X11/X11/X11 (and so on) because the symlink to "." gets a copy of the contents of the directory src1/usr/bin/ I could do bind mounts for src1 and src2 but normaly I try to avoid bind mounts How do I mirror the contents of name name changing directories when I want to use fixed directorynames at destination. My symlink to dir approach was not successfull. Thanks lopiuh
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