rsync - Jan 2007 - rsync on a mac - trouble with aliases

good afternoon everyone!  i am new to this list, so please forgive me for my
ignorance.  

first, i have configured passwordless ssh to allow automatic trust between
remote sites within the same internal network.  i used the RSA keygen for that.

secondly, i have a number of .dmg files kept on my master imaging server that
need to be backed up off-site in the various schools around the district.  not
all the images go to every school, and i'm trying to avoid having multiple
copies of the same image on the master.  what i did was to set up directories
for each location and place aliases of the images to go to each location in
that directory.

to accomplish this goal, i placed the following line in my crontab on the
master.

(time for this to execute) rsync -e ssh -avzuLE --copy-links
/Volumes/Storage/lincoln/ 172.16.40.200:/images/

perhaps there's a problem with my syntax?  any help for this underfunded
school
district would be greatly appreciated!

--john

On 1/31/07, js_spamfree-rsync@yahoo.com <js_spamfree-rsync@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> secondly, i have a number of .dmg files kept on my master imaging server
that
> need to be backed up off-site in the various schools around the district. 
not
> all the images go to every school, and i'm trying to avoid having
multiple
> copies of the same image on the master.  what i did was to set up
directories
> for each location and place aliases of the images to go to each location in
> that directory.
Aliases are treated specially by the Mac OS X Finder, but they look
like empty regular files through the POSIX filesystem interface that
rsync uses, which would explain why rsync would create empty files on
the destination.  Use symlinks instead of aliases; you can create
symlinks at the Terminal with "ln -s".  I'm glad to see you're
passing
--copy-links.

Matt