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 nov 11 17:41 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 5 nov 20 12:10 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 mar 24 2009 Archivos de programa -> /mnt/vista/Program Files drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 mar 24 2009 Boot -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 333203 ene 21 2008 bootmgr -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 mar 24 2009 BOOTSECT.BAK lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 nov 2 2006 Documents and Settings -> /mnt/vista/Users -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 171136 sep 4 2009 grldr -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 171136 sep 2 2009 grldr.bak drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 jun 1 2009 Jocs -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 904704 dic 1 2006 msdia80.dll drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 oct 27 17:03 ProgramData drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 sep 6 21:58 Program Files drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 oct 11 16:43 Program Files (x86) drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 mar 24 2009 RaidTool drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 mar 27 2010 $Recycle.Bin drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 mar 24 2009 System Volume Information drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 mar 24 2009 Users drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 264 nov 11 16:23 Windows The symlink "Archivos de programa -> /mnt/vista/Program Files" is wrong, it should point to the relative path, something like "Archivos de programa -> Program Files". rsync is called this way: rsync -aERPv --progress rsync://localhost/Windows-Vista-backup /mnt/rsync/vista/ Do someone know which should be the correct options to create clone backup without breaking permissions neither symlinks? thanks in advanced :)
