rsync - Jun 2005 - sudo / --link-dest combination problem.

Hi, using the attached script to implement an incremental rotating  
backup of my home directory
works fine if I run it myself, however if it is run as root the -- 
link-dest fails and all files are
recreated rather than linked to. Can someone explain the problem to me?

I'm using rsync version 2.6.5
on
Darwin Kernel Version 8.1.0 (OS X Tiger)

Thanks,
  Simon.


======================================================================rm -rf
"/Volumes/Rotating backup/simonallfrey.6"
mv -f "/Volumes/Rotating backup/simonallfrey.5"
"/Volumes/Rotating
backup/simonallfrey.6"
mv -f "/Volumes/Rotating backup/simonallfrey.4"
"/Volumes/Rotating
backup/simonallfrey.5"
mv -f "/Volumes/Rotating backup/simonallfrey.3"
"/Volumes/Rotating
backup/simonallfrey.4"
mv -f "/Volumes/Rotating backup/simonallfrey.2"
"/Volumes/Rotating
backup/simonallfrey.3"
mv -f "/Volumes/Rotating backup/simonallfrey.1"
"/Volumes/Rotating
backup/simonallfrey.2"
mv -f "/Volumes/Rotating backup/simonallfrey.0"
"/Volumes/Rotating
backup/simonallfrey.1"
/usr/local/bin/rsync -a --eahfs --link-dest="/Volumes/Rotating backup/ 
simonallfrey.1" "/Users/simonallfrey" "/Volumes/Rotating
backup/
simonallfrey.0/"
=======================================================================

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:32:06AM -0700, simon allfrey
wrote:
> works fine if I run it myself, however if it is run as root the --
> link-dest fails and all files are recreated rather than linked to.
For files to be hard-linked together, they must be exactly the same in
all preserved attributes.  If you previously ran the script as a normal
user, some files were probably created with either the wrong user or the
wrong group from the originals (compared with what would be produced by
a run as root).  I would assume that this would solve itself going
forward because the root-run files would match other root-run files.

..wayne..