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2017 Mar 03
2
How do you exclude a directory that is a symlink?
...n't say explicitly, is the target of the symlink inside or
> outside the source directory?
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Prometheus Labor Communications, Inc.
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413-572-1300 <(413)%20572-1300>
Communicate or Die: American Labor Unions and the Internet
http://communicateordie.com
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2017 Mar 03
3
How do you exclude a directory that is a symlink?
A thousand greetings,
I'm trying to rsync a directory from a server to my local machine that has
a symbolic link to a directory I don't want to download. I have an
"exclude" option to exclude the symlink which works fine. However, if I add
a --copy-links option to the command, it appears to override my "exclude"
directive and the contents of the symlinked directory
2017 Mar 03
2
How do you exclude a directory that is a symlink?
Considering you cant INCLUDE a directory that is a symlink... which would
be really handy right now for me to resolve a mapping of 103 -> meaningful_name
for backups, instead im resorting to temporary bind mounts of 103 onto
meaningful_name, and when the bind mount isnt there, the --del is emptying
meaningful_name accidentally at times.
I think both situations could benefit from a