Paul Wayne, Kevin, Teodor and others,
Thanks for your contributions in response to my postings.
Paul: I was very imprecise if not plain wrong in my description. :-(
Thanks for explaining what really happens.
"Rsync will not update an existing file in-place unless you use the
--inplace option.
On Fri 18 Jan 2013, Robert Bell wrote:
> >
> >If a file exists in the target directory when using --link-dest rsync
> >modifies the link rather than replacing it which means you don't have
> >history for files that have been replaced rather than added or deleted.
> Thanks for your astute observatio
Kevin,
Thanks for your response.
Some observations are inter-lined below.
Rob.
Regards
Rob. Bell e-mail: robert.b...@csiro.au
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