On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 04:35:44AM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
I presume the option --copy-unsafe-links really means to copy the file
contents a symlink points to, even outside the tree being copyed, rather
than make a symlink on the destination.
What I find is that if a symlink on the source is dangling, that is,
it points to nothing that exists, that symlink is not created at the
destination.
What I want is for all symlinks to be reproduced as symlinks exactly,
regardless of whether what they point to happens to exist at the moment
or not. How can I get this? The option --links is only working when
the symlink actually points to something (e.g. stat() succeeds). But
if stat() fails, even though lstat() would succeed, the symlink is not
copied.
This is a late response, but I didn't see anybody else answer. Did you
solve your problem? The --links option is supposed to copy all links.
I suspect it has something to do with some other options you're using.
This copies a symlink going nowhere:
mkdir s d
ln -s /nowhere s
rsync -rvl s/ d/
- Dave
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