rsync - Jul 2013 - How to circumvent "Symlink has no referent"?

Hi,

in my backup script I'm using the "-L" option to transform
symlinks into referent files/dirs. Now I'm also using the
"--delete" option.
Unfortunately "--delete" doesnt work if an error like "Symlink
has no referent" occurs. So far the only solution for that seems to not
use the "-L" option or to add "--ignore-errors". It doesnt
seem very wise to me to use "--ignore-errors", so my question is, is
there
any other way, to just ignore "dead" symlinks? I'd just like to
copy the referent files if they exist. If they don't exist (which would
produce
the error in the subject), I'd like to just copy the symlink.

Is there any way of doing that? I googled a lot, but it seems to me that it is
not possible.

Thanks,
Martin

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You are telling rsync to do something that it can't do because of bad
data.  That makes it an error.

If you have broken symlinks perhaps you should remove them with:
find /path -follow -type l -ls -delete

On 07/12/13 11:33, yetanotheruser at Safe-mail.net
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in my backup script I'm using the "-L" option to transform
symlinks
> into referent files/dirs. Now I'm also using the "--delete"
> option. Unfortunately "--delete" doesnt work if an error like
> "Symlink has no referent" occurs. So far the only solution for
that
> seems to not use the "-L" option or to add
"--ignore-errors". It
> doesnt seem very wise to me to use "--ignore-errors", so my
> question is, is there any other way, to just ignore "dead"
> symlinks? I'd just like to copy the referent files if they exist.
> If they don't exist (which would produce the error in the subject),
> I'd like to just copy the symlink.
> 
> Is there any way of doing that? I googled a lot, but it seems to me
> that it is not possible.
> 
> Thanks, Martin
> 
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