rsync deleting directories when synchronizing

Liam Steacker
Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:35:27 -0000

Wayne Davison wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:56:42PM -0400, Liam Steacker wrote:
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>>When we issue the above commands, rsync removes the /etc/init.d
>>directory altogether, and recreates it with only the scripts in the
>>module, thereby removing all of our existing init scripts.
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>What probably happened was that /etc/init.d was a symlink (e.g. on Red
>Hat /etc/init.d is a symlink to rc.d/init.d).  If this is a directory on
>the source system, rsync will remove the symlink and replaced it with
>the directory.
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>You have two solutions:  The best solution is to use the same symlinked
>directory structure in your modules as in your destination dirs.
>Alternately, you could use the --keep-dirlinks option to tell rsync to
>treat a symlink to a directory as if it were an actual directory.
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>..wayne..
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Wayne you are once again spot on, thank you very much.

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