On Thu 14 Nov 2019, Pierre Bernhardt via rsync wrote:
> Am 14.11.19 um 10:54 schrieb Paul Slootman via rsync:
> > You need to specify the source directory as the link-dest directory.
>
> Hi, I tried it also because it's an old question which has never worked
> for me. Instead it creates copies and not hard links:
>
>
> pierre@in94:~/tmp$ ls -li a b
> a:
> insgesamt 8
> 257315 -rw-r--r-- 1 pierre pierre 4 Nov 14 10:53 1
> 257316 -rw-r--r-- 1 pierre pierre 6 Nov 14 10:53 2
>
> b:
> insgesamt 0
> pierre@in94:~/tmp$ rsync -av --link-dest=a a/ b/
> sending incremental file list
> --link-dest arg does not exist: a
There's your clue.
>From the manpage:
If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the destination
directory.
So it's looking for b/a as the link-dest directory.
Use a full pathname for --link-dest to remove all uncertainty.
E.g.:
rsync -av --link-dest=$(pwd)/a a/ b/
In this case, as the destination is also in same current directory, you
could use:
rsync -av --link-dest=../a a/ b/
Paul
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