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Drop the --copy-dirlinks and add a trailing / to your sources:
rsync -RaH --stats --delete --progress --itemize-changes dir1/ dir2/
dest/
itemize-changes is always nice too ;)
On 12/02/13 14:21, - wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a bunch of directories to mirror via rsync. I have lots of
> hardlinked files spread about these directories. Therfore I use -R
> (--relative) and -H.
>
> so far ok but:
>
> I create symlinks to the source-directories via script because
> src-dirs have changing names (date and time of backup) and I want
> to have constant directory names on target. How can I achieve that?
>
>
> I thought -k (--copy-dirlinks) would work but this replaces ALL
> symlinks to dirs which exist in the copied tree to real
> directories. I just want to have the "symlink dir conversion" done
> on the starting directories dir1 and dir2
>
> cd /tmp/backup rsync -RaH --copy-dirlinks --stats --delete
> --progress dir1 dir2 dest/
>
> dir1 and dir2 are symlinks to directories which contents have to be
> mirrored I want to have real directories dest/dir1 and dest/dir2
> after rsyncing and not only the symlink copied. Using -k
> (--copy-dirlinks) the following hapens:
>
> src1/usr/bin/X11 -> . becomes dest/src1/X11/X11/X11 (and so on)
> because the symlink to "." gets a copy of the contents of the
> directory src1/usr/bin/
>
> I could do bind mounts for src1 and src2 but normaly I try to avoid
> bind mounts
>
> How do I mirror the contents of name name changing directories when
> I want to use fixed directorynames at destination. My symlink to
> dir approach was not successfull.
>
> Thanks
>
> lopiuh
>
>
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