Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-21 Thread Pau Peris
Running the command you posted above gies the same result. Links on the new location are pointing to the absolute path old location. $ ls -la /mnt/rsync/vista lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 mar 24 2009 Archivos de programa -> /mnt/vista/Program Files 2010/11/21 Andrea Conti : >> rsync -aERPv --p

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-21 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 November 2010 23:54:36 Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. > Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that > symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as > soon a paths get changed. look at the e

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> rsync -aERPv --progress rsync://localhost/Windows-Vista-backup > /mnt/rsync/vista/ Is there a specific reason you are using rsync in daemon mode on the sending side for a local tranfer? If the symlinks look right on the mounted windows fs, I guess that rsync -aEPv /mnt/vista/. /mnt/rsync/vista

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:54:36 +0100, Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. > Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that > symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as > soon a paths get changed. app-misc/syml

[gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-20 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as soon a paths get changed. look at the example: $ ls -la /mnt/rsync/vista/ wxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096