tags 531639 lenny fixed 531639 3.0.5-1 thanks On Wed 03 Jun 2009, Arthur de Jong wrote: > > I ran into this when reorganising some directories and putting > compatibility symlinks in place. The end result that the whole directory > went missing. > > I think the best way to explain is a demonstration. We set up simple > source and destination directories:
Thanks for that, makes it a lot simpler to understand the problem :) The option --safe-links was basically invented for this. With that option, rsync will show: sending incremental file list ./ ignoring unsafe symlink "/tmp/rsync/dst/foo" -> "/tmp/rsync/src/bar" bar/ bar/some_file deleting foo/some_file deleting foo/ However, the symlink won't be copied either then. > Note that this only seems to happen with --delete-delay (at least not > with --delete-after and --delete-during). Also note that this does not > occur with the version from sid (3.0.5-1). Hmm, I don't see anything in the changelog that refers to this. It could be that some other fix caused this to go away as well :-) I'll forward this bug report to upstream, hopefully a patch could be made so that the fix for this could be backported. Also hopefully this fix qualifies to be added to stable... Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
