rsync - Dec 2013 - symlink in -R src_dirlist and real dirs on target

Hi folks,

I have a bunch of directories to mirror via rsync. I have lots of
hardlinked files spread about these directories. Therfore I use -R
(--relative) and -H.

so far ok but:

I create symlinks to the source-directories via script because src-dirs
have changing names (date and time of backup) and I want to have constant
directory names on target. How can I achieve that?

I thought -k (--copy-dirlinks) would work but this replaces ALL symlinks to
dirs which exist in the copied tree to real directories. I just want to
have the "symlink dir conversion" done on the starting directories
dir1 and
dir2

cd /tmp/backup
rsync -RaH --copy-dirlinks --stats --delete --progress  dir1   dir2   dest/

dir1 and dir2 are symlinks to directories which contents have to be mirrored
I want to have real directories dest/dir1 and dest/dir2 after rsyncing and
not only the symlink copied. Using  -k (--copy-dirlinks) the following
hapens:

src1/usr/bin/X11 -> .
becomes
dest/src1/X11/X11/X11 (and so on) because the symlink to "." gets a
copy of
the contents of the directory src1/usr/bin/

I could do bind mounts for src1 and src2 but normaly I try to avoid bind
mounts

How do I mirror the contents of name name changing directories when I want
to use fixed directorynames at destination. My symlink to dir approach was
not successfull.

Thanks

lopiuh
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Drop the --copy-dirlinks and add a trailing / to your sources:
rsync -RaH --stats --delete --progress --itemize-changes dir1/ dir2/
 dest/

itemize-changes is always nice too ;)

On 12/02/13 14:21, - wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have a bunch of directories to mirror via rsync. I have lots of 
> hardlinked files spread about these directories. Therfore I use -R 
> (--relative) and -H.
> 
> so far ok but:
> 
> I create symlinks to the source-directories via script because
> src-dirs have changing names (date and time of backup) and I want
> to have constant directory names on target. How can I achieve that?
> 
> 
> I thought -k (--copy-dirlinks) would work but this replaces ALL
> symlinks to dirs which exist in the copied tree to real
> directories. I just want to have the "symlink dir conversion"
done
> on the starting directories dir1 and dir2
> 
> cd /tmp/backup rsync -RaH --copy-dirlinks --stats --delete
> --progress  dir1   dir2   dest/
> 
> dir1 and dir2 are symlinks to directories which contents have to be
> mirrored I want to have real directories dest/dir1 and dest/dir2
> after rsyncing and not only the symlink copied. Using  -k
> (--copy-dirlinks) the following hapens:
> 
> src1/usr/bin/X11 -> . becomes dest/src1/X11/X11/X11 (and so on)
> because the symlink to "." gets a copy of the contents of the
> directory src1/usr/bin/
> 
> I could do bind mounts for src1 and src2 but normaly I try to avoid
> bind mounts
> 
> How do I mirror the contents of name name changing directories when
> I want to use fixed directorynames at destination. My symlink to
> dir approach was not successfull.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> lopiuh
> 
> 
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Hi Kevin,

thanks. I'll try this again. I did before but got the impression that on
subsequent runs, rsync would not recursivly run through dir1 and dir2. I
hope I just was very tired ;-)

another topic: Do you have an idea if rsync could delete "dir3" if
dest/
consists of dir1 dir2 dir3 and I use

rsync -RaH --stats --delete --progress --itemize-changes dir1/ dir2/ dest/

Thanks
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