similar to: Question about --copy-unsafe-links

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13827 Bug ID: 13827 Summary: despite --copy-unsafe-links, rsync does not copy the referent of symlinks that point one level outside the copied tree Product: rsync Version: 3.1.3 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity:

I presume the option --copy-unsafe-links really means to copy the file contents a symlink points to, even outside the tree being copyed, rather than make a symlink on the destination. What I find is that if a symlink on the source is dangling, that is, it points to nothing that exists, that symlink is not created at the destination. What I want is for all symlinks to be reproduced as symlinks

Hello, I try use rsync from Debian 2.2 (rsync 2.3.2) to mirror Debian distribution tree. in tree is directories dists/potato/main/binary-all/ dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ pool/ In directory dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ is some files symbolic links to ../binary-all/ and some links to ../../../../pool/ In mirror I want preserve links to binary-all/ and copy as files links to pool/. I try

Hi, as documented, if you use rsync with --copy-unsafe-links, and copy a directory with a symlink pointing outside of the copied tree, the referent of the symlink is copied. Now, assume that the directory contains a symlink, which points to a (2nd) directory outside of the copied tree. If this (2nd) directory contains another symlink, which also points outside of the copied tree, rsync

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10989 Bug ID: 10989 Summary: "copying unsafe symlink" warning should not occur if file is not changing Product: rsync Version: 3.1.1 Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component: core

Hi, New to this list, but long-time (appreciative) user of rsync. Grateful for any help with my problem here... In particular, I've been having long-standing issues (just now getting around to trying to resolve them) when I use rsync with '--copy-unsafe-links' alongside the '--delete' parameter. If I use either of these two parameters in isolation (along with other shared

Hi, I'm a bit confused about what the '--copy-unsafe-links' option considers the 'source tree'. In the man page it says that for links pointing outside the 'source tree' the file will be copied, but when I try this, for all links pointing outside of the local directory the files are copied even though the links point to files that are in the directory tree that is

Hi, I am new to Rsync, but i have successfully used it to sync the contents between two machines. Now the requirement is to sync the contents which are symlinks. I need to sync the actual contents on client machine from these symlinks. I went through rsync tutorial and found --copy-links options to do my job i.e, to transform symlink into referent file/dir Issue: Rsync Server : The actual

Greetings. I wrote a script that make remote backups with rsync. I have 2 main problems with it 1) I want that the destination directory (on the repository machine) recreate the backed up file path and it permission (I use -R here ) 2) Is there a way to "follow" all the links using -R and -a parameters..?? Currently I am using something like this. rsync -al --delete

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599 Summary: copy-unsafe-links cann't take affect Product: rsync Version: 2.6.2 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org ReportedBy: faris.xiao@haoxi.com

I'm trying to synchronize a particularly troublesome directory structure on a SunOS box to a PC. I really want all symbolic links resolved to real files on the PC when everything is done. I can't seem to find any combination of parameters that will accomplish this. It boils down to two problems. 1. It seems like that even if I exclude a symbolic link that is a directory it is not

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3147 Summary: message 'copying unsafe symlink' only appears if verbose>=2 Product: rsync Version: 2.6.7 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: trivial Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org

Hi list, I would like to understand if, and why, the --unsafe flag is needed when using --copy-storage-all when migrating guests which uses writeback cache mode. Background: I want to live migrate guests with writeback cache from host A to host B and these hosts only have local storage (ie: no shared storage at all). From my understanding, --unsafe should be only required when migrating

Thank you. So, If I understand correctly, "ordinary" "wide links = yes", means Samba *will* traverse an existing symlink that points outside the root of the share, if permissions allow. However because it *also* disables SMB1 Unix extensions, it *also* prevents the user from creating or modifying symlinks on the share, so in wffect it inherently prevents this being

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11800 Bug ID: 11800 Summary: smarter "safe" symlink detection Product: rsync Version: 3.1.1 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: core Assignee: wayned at samba.org

Hello, about a year ago I ran into situation where there's a "metadirectory" containing directories and symlinks to files. There was a need to mirror the contents of files and directories gathered via symlinks to this metadirectory, regular mirroring of the tree wouldn't do any good. The attached patch gives the user ability to define how many symbolic links rsync should follow

When using rsync -avv to recursively copy a local directory on a remote server, and if the remote server has a symbolic link of the same name pointing to some other directory, then that remote symlink is clobbered in favor of the hard-wired path. I looked at the man page and other rsync documentation about copying links, but not of the options seemed to apply in my case. The closest was

Hi, The problem I found is not in what rsync, but on the error handling: How to reproduce: On server side I setup a tree and share using rsync + xinetd, of course, for security reason I use chroot option. Now I push this symlink: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 nov 10 16:28 horsroot -> /bin/ Now I try to do: ./rsync -avPH --copy-unsafe-links draco::test/ /tmp/rsyncdest/ (Of course the

Hello, I am using Samba version 4.2.0rc4-GIT-4701d74. When using a connection in protocol smb2 or smb3, the unix client says symlinks are not supported, for example: # mount //ip.addr/Programs ./tmp -o vers=3.0 # cd tmp # ln -s bla blub ln: failed to create symbolic link ?blub?: Operation not supported # mount //ip.addr/Programs on /mnt/tmp type cifs

I think someone posted this before, but I can't find it in the archives. I am using rsync to pull down source files to be compiled. The delete options are used to clear out any old files left over from previous. Normally this works. I've run into one case where it persistently fails. Within the directory created during compiling is a symlink to another directory, also created during