rsync - Jun 2005 - Symlinks

Hello everybody,

I am using rsync to make an identical mirror of an existing server. It's 
been working fine since some time now.
Now, I've just added a firewire disk to both servers and created a symlink 
to the mounted disk within the source and destination trees:

Server P (source, rsync is running as a daemon on this server):
    /Images
       |___Project1
       |___Project2
       |___fwdisk (this is a symlink pointing to /fwdisk, created using 
ln -s /fwdisk /Images/fwdisk)

Server H (destination):
    /Images
       |___Project1
       |___Project2
       |___fwdisk (symlink pointing to /fwdisk)

Only the Images module is exported on the source server. I don't want to 
export the fwdisk directory.
I want all files in /Images/fwdisk (which is actually /fwdisk) to be copied 
from Server P to Server H (to the corresponding directory, i.e, to /fwdisk 
via the symlink /Images/fwdisk on Server H).

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:53:00AM +0400, apache7@gmx.net
wrote:
> Now, I've just added a firewire disk to both servers and created a
> symlink to the mounted disk within the source and destination trees:
Rsync copies symlinks as symlinks unless the --copy-links option is
given, in which case all symlinks are replaced by the referent object.
However, if the symlink points outside of a module's path, it cannot be
copied (because that would be a security problem).  If you want to copy
the contents of the fwdisk directory, I'd suggest either making a new
daemon module for that path and copying it separately, or using "bind"
mounts instead of symlinks (if possible on your OS) to mount the same
dir into multiple places (on both the source and destination).

..wayne..