rsync - Nov 2006 - copy symbolic links as real file during syncing files.

Hello, list

Rsync is a amazing tools for files and directories syncing.

There is something unclearly to me. I digged in the web for a while, but
there aren't useful things for me.

Here is my puzzle:

I want to sync one big directory from one host to a remote host. And there
are several symbolic links which linked to some files and directories that
outside the certain directory. I want to copy the symbolic links as real
file or directory.

For example:

The host A:

-rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 aa
-rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 ab
-rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 ac
lrwxrwxrwx 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 6 2006-11-13 09:14 ad -> /tmp/b

After the syncing,

The host B should looks like:


-rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 aa
-rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 ab
-rw-r--r-- 1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 0 2006-11-13 09:14 ac
drwxr-xr-x  1 wangpenghui wangpenghui 6 2006-11-13 09:14 ad

The directory ad should be the real folder of the old /tmp/b

I have tried some parameters of the command rsync. But no result too.

Every response will be appreciated.

Wang,

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:17:16AM +0800 you wrote:
> I want to copy the symbolic links as real file or directory.
Use -L (--copy-links) to transform symlinks into the referent file.

..wayne..

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, <wangpenghui@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> I want to sync one big directory from one host to a remote host.
> And there are several symbolic links which linked to some files
> and directories that outside the certain directory. I want to
> copy the symbolic links as real file or directory.
The rsync man page describes this option:

-L, --copy-links
    When symlinks are encountered, the item that they point to  (the
    referent) is copied, rather than the symlink.  In older versions
    of rsync, this option also had the side-effect  of  telling  the
    receiving  side to follow symlinks, such as symlinks to directo-
    ries.  In a modern rsync such as this one, you'll need to  spec-
    ify  --keep-dirlinks  (-K) to get this extra behavior.  The only
    exception is when sending files to an rsync that is too  old  to
    understand -K -- in that case, the -L option will still have the
    side-effect of -K on that older receiving rsync.

If you are using rsync as a daemon, then be aware that if any of the
symlink targets are outside of the module's path, you must declare
"use chroot = no" for that module.

    John