Jignesh Shah
2009-Jun-29 05:03 UTC
difference between --no-implied-dir abd --keep-dirlinks ?
Hi, I have gone through the rsync documentation and also tested same both --no-implied-dir and --keep-dirlinks options. My question is what is the difference between these options in below scenario? I have /foo/bar is the symlink to /foo/baz at source and same directory structure with symlink is there at destination. When I sync the data from /foo/bar/* with --relative option specified, I am ending with losing symlink at destination. The rsync replaces symlink (/foo/bar -> /foo/baz) with /foo/bar directory and synch data into it rather than synching it to /foo/baz/. When I read rsync documentation and used either of --keep-dirlinks or --no-implied-dir option, everything works as expected. Jignesh -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Wayne Davison
2009-Jun-30 15:39 UTC
difference between --no-implied-dir abd --keep-dirlinks ?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:33:34AM +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote:> I have gone through the rsync documentation and also tested same both > --no-implied-dir and --keep-dirlinks options. My question is what is the > difference between these options in below scenario?Implied directories are those that are above the transfer area but included as a part of the path due to the use of -R (--relative). By default all implied directories get sent with their directory attributes, and the destination is forced to match that. If you want the implied paths to differ, --no-implied-dir will leave them alone. Using --keep-dirlinks also affects the transfer area, so that you can put a symlink to a directory anyplace that the sender has a dir. ..wayne..
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