rsync - Jan 2005 - link-dest

Hi,

I've seen the option --link-dest of rsync and this is nearly what I'm
searching for.

Problem for me is that if remotefile exists the link-dest gets not checked
again and I want to be able to pass more than one link-dest to rsync.

Has someone an idea for this?

Lars

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Lars Heer
wrote:
> Problem for me is that if remotefile exists the link-dest gets not
> checked again and I want to be able to pass more than one link-dest
> to rsync.
You should typically copy into an empty directory tree when using
--link-dest to effect maximal linking of existing files.  The CVS
version supports the use of multiple --link-dest options now, so
this feature will be coming out in the next release (whenever that
will be).  You can try it out now by either checking out the CVS
version or snagging the latest "nightly" tar file from the rsync
website.

..wayne..

Hi,

with rsync-HEAD-20050114-1853GMT
I receive following error:
var/run/samba/brlock.tdb
Warning: unexpected read size of -7004 in map_ptr
var/www/dyndns/gallery2/g2data/cache/derivative/8/7/
ERROR during backup for marge at Sat Jan 15 18:25:47 CET 2005
homer:~# 

I only put the self compiled rsync on the executing machine...
Could this be the error?

Lars


Am Freitag, den 14.01.2005, 11:26 -0800 schrieb Wayne
Davison:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Lars Heer wrote:
> > Problem for me is that if remotefile exists the link-dest gets not
> > checked again and I want to be able to pass more than one link-dest
> > to rsync.
> 
> You should typically copy into an empty directory tree when using
> --link-dest to effect maximal linking of existing files.  The CVS
> version supports the use of multiple --link-dest options now, so
> this feature will be coming out in the next release (whenever that
> will be).  You can try it out now by either checking out the CVS
> version or snagging the latest "nightly" tar file from the rsync
> website.
> 
> ..wayne..
> 
> 
-- 
Lars Heer <l.heer@gmx.de>