Hi, I have one question regarding handling of symlinks in rsync. If I have /source directory in which I have 100s of sub directories of directories and each one has symlink to some directories out side the /source directory hierarchy. Does rsync follows all those symlinks and syncs the data if I specifies below rsync command? rsync -avz /source/ remote.ky:/source/ source | | - source1 --> /projects/win | - source2 --> /projects/unix | - source3 --> /scripts/win | .... Does rsync command syncs /project contents as well? What if I have some symlinks inside /projects? Thanks, Jignesh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/attachments/20090901/834b0797/attachment.html>
Jignesh Shah (jignesh.shah1980 at gmail.com) wrote on 1 September 2009 11:30: >Hi, I have one question regarding handling of symlinks in rsync. If I have >/source directory in which I have 100s of sub directories of directories and >each one has symlink to some directories out side the /source directory >hierarchy. Does rsync follows all those symlinks and syncs the data if I >specifies below rsync command? > >rsync -avz /source/ remote.ky:/source/ The -a option in this command will make rsync copy symlinks as symlinks, to faithfully reproduce source on remote.ky. >source > | > | - source1 --> /projects/win > | - source2 --> /projects/unix > | - source3 --> /scripts/win > | .... > >Does rsync command syncs /project contents as well? Only if it's inside source.