rsync - Aug 2006 - Rsync --link-dest over ssh not working

Alright guys, you're my last hope.

Currently I am trying to create a rotating backup system. I have a remote server
which I've patched to work with the -E option. Anyhow, the remote server has
the backup and I'm trying to use --link-dest against it. Here is the command
I'm running.

sudo rsync --dry-run -e 'ssh -l root' --delete -auE \
--link-dest=../backup.0 \
/Users/frizop/ \
10.0.1.127:/home/rsync/Laptop-Backup/backup.1/

What happens is rather then check backup.0, it picks up /root (on the remote
side) as the dest and wants to wipe out everything in there.

I've also tried 

sudo rsync --dry-run -e ssh --delete -auE \
 --link-dest=../backup.0 \
 /Users/frizop/ \
 root@10.0.1.127:/home/rsync/Laptop-Backup/backup.1/

--link-dest=/home/rsync/Laptop-Backup/backup.0

and about 100 diffrent attempts. The closest I can come to getting it right is
doing root@10.0.1.127::backup/DIRECTORY but then it fails with all sorts of
permission errors.

If I remove --link-dest it will properly preform a full backup, and if I replace
backup.1 with the previous directory backup.0/ it updates it just like normal.

Also, if I replace SRC and DEST with local filesystem paths, it works fine there
too.

Thanks in Advance guys.

Thanks,
--Nathan

On 8/1/06, Nathan <frizop@yahoo.com> wrote:
> sudo rsync --dry-run -e 'ssh -l root' --delete -auE \
> --link-dest=../backup.0 \
> /Users/frizop/ \
> 10.0.1.127:/home/rsync/Laptop-Backup/backup.1/
>
> What happens is rather then check backup.0, it picks up /root (on the
remote side) as the dest and wants to wipe out everything in there.
Your command looks correct.  Rsync would try to wipe out /root if the
destination filesystem path (following 127:) got cut off, but I don't
see how this would happen.  What version of rsync are you using on
each side?  You mention -E: is Mac OS X involved?

I recommend that you pass -vvv for triple verbosity and send the
output to a file.  If you don't see what's wrong, I would be happy to
take a look at the output.

Matt