remote rsyncd modules and --link-dest

Shaun Cloherty
Wed, 14 May 2003 03:41:12 -0000

Bah! "use chroot = true"...


> Can anyone shed any light on what I should expect from rsync when the
> --link-dest option is invoked when the destination is a remote rsync
> module? i.e.
>
> rsync --archive --delete --link-dest=../dst_1/ /src/ user at
host::xyz/dst_0
>
> I almost expected to get a whole lot of hard links in dst_1 to unchanged
> files in dst_0... if I skip rsyncd on the server side (i.e. make the
> target user at host:/path/to/xyz/dst_0) that is indeed what I get, so could
> anyone enlighten me as to why the same isn't possible when the
> destination is a remote module...
>
> Regards,
>
> Shaun
>
>