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2003 Jan 04
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directories that change into symlinks
...ily backup is done using the rdiff-backup tool, which in turn
utilizes rsync/librsync to do the actual mirroring work.
a few days ago we did a refactoring and renamed a bunch of directories.
for backward compatibility we maintain the old names by symlinking it to
the new names. so, for example, oldname1/ now becomes newname1/, and
oldname1 is now a symlink to newname1/.
we found that now the mirroring cannot complete. rsync doesn't seem to
be able to handle this. it tries to do an rmdir(oldname1) followed by
symlink(newname1,oldname1). however, since the directory oldname1/ in
the old mir...