similar to: --link-dest behavior

Hi, hardlinking (-H) works perfectly while using a syntax like -avhxSDH <SRC> <DEST> Now I have to mirror multiple SRC directories which contain hardlinks. e. g: src1/a is a hardlink to src2/b -RavhxSDH SRC1 SRC2 DEST does not preserve hardlink a and b in DEST. Is there any chance to do that? Thanks lopiuh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

Hi: I have attempted to following some instructions to use --link-dest in order to preserve space for multiple backups. I'm using rsync on Cygwin with a NAS (ext4) which does support hard-links on the filesystem. I've written a short program that does attempt to create a hard-link on this NAS from Cygwin and it does look to be working. If I run ls -li on the NAS the inodes are the same.

rsync 2.6.9 --link-dest does - not hardlink special files (symlink, device nodes) This doesn't take much space, but it clutters the logfiles - change owner/groupship on the hardlink So if I use a hard-linked-tree-per-day, it changes history also Is this still the same with newer versions? Are there options to modify this behavior? If not, why not? :-) louis -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB

I notice that devices are not hardlinked when using the --link-dest option, for instance: rsync -aH --link-dest=../bar/ foo/ baz/ When foo/zero is a device, baz/zero is not a hardlink to bar/zero. How come? $ rsync --version rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 on linux 2.4.x -- Russell Senior ``I have nine fingers; you have ten.'' seniorr@aracnet.com

Hi, I'm having a problem using --link-dest and --hard-links when the fs hits the hard link limit (link(2) returns EMLINK). Using rsync 3.0.7 an error is thrown and the target file is not created. Glancing at git head it _looks_ like things could now be a little nicer. Perhaps the target file is copied instead of hard linked when hardlinking fails -- I've not tested it. Anyway, the

Hi, I can't manage to get rsync's --link-dest option working. Here is a step by step script which doesn't produce the good results. # create test dir mkdir testrsync cd testrsync mkdir orig echo "abcd" > orig/testfile # create a mirror rsync -apog orig/ mirror/ # create another mirror using link-dest rsync -apog --link-dest=mirror/ orig/ mirror2/ # look at inodes ls

Hi! It's me again with another --link-dest issue: I am using dirvish (www.dirvish.org) to create daily backup on disk images. dirvish is using rsync with --link-dest pointing to the last good image. This creates images with hardlinks to unmodified files. So far so good. Now I want to create a "current" filetree with hardlinks pointing to the last image. rsync -vaH --delete

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6746 Summary: file from link-dest-source is copies and not linked for identical files Product: rsync Version: 3.0.6 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10334 Summary: rsync doesn't log hardlink-copies using --link-dest Product: rsync Version: 3.0.9 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: Kontakt at

I like the behavior of first doing: cp -al /backup/old /backup/new rsync /source /backup/new This way permissions will be updates throughout all snapshots (I really don't want multiple copies of my entire music collection if I decide to make all songs group readable... etc) Has anyone come up with a way to do this using --link-dest? Matt

Hi. This is bug report and simultaneously urgent asking for help. I am trying to write my rsync wrapper script, which will create minutely snapshots of my data using --link-dest. I want this script to be robust, it should work even if I do suspend/hibernate/reboot without notifying the script about this actions, it should work if I make hard-reset of the computer and if I disconnect network. Also

Hourly I have an rsync job backup /home to /home/backup. I have 24 directories (one for each hour): home.0 ... home.23 Here is the script I am running via cron: #! /usr/local/bin/bash dest=`date +%k | sed 's/ //g'` linkdir=`date -v-1H +%k | sed 's/ //g'` chflags -R noschg /home/backup rm -rf /home/backup/home.$dest rsync -ahHP --numeric-ids --delete --stats --link-dest=../

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5263 Summary: failure to report deleted files with link-dest Product: rsync Version: 3.0.0 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org ReportedBy: 14709c93@mailinator.com

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3693 Summary: rsync can use same --link-dest file several times, leading to incorrect hard links Product: rsync Version: 2.6.8 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3692 Summary: regression: symlinks are created as hardlinks with -- link-dest Product: rsync Version: 2.6.7 Platform: x86 URL: http://rsync.samba.org OS/Version: FreeBSD Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: core

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4079 Summary: rsync fails with --inplace, --link-dest and --no-whole- file Product: rsync Version: 2.6.8 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org

This has been a consideration. But it pains me that a tiny change/addition to the rsync option set would save much time and space for other legit use cases. We know rsync very well, we dont know ZFS very well (licensing kept the tech out of our linux-centric operations). We've been using it but we're not experts yet. Thanks for the suggestion. /kc On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 12:07:05PM

Hello, I have read through the list of previous issues regarding this issue but haven't been able to resolve mine. I apologize in advance for the long text and am probably doing some simple typo. I have two servers in my setup: *Server 1* Doing rsync with --link-dest daily and working as expected. I'm getting the hard links in the new daily directories. *Server 2* Running rsync daemon

rsync -Ha --link-dest=/media/4tb/bak/panic-2012-01-01 /media/2tb/bak/panic-2012-02-01 /media/4tb/bak/ root at dancer:/media/4tb/bak# ls -l panic*/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg -rw------- 15 darxus darxus 100772 1999-09-14 21:19 panic-2011-12-20/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg -rw------- 15 darxus darxus 100772 1999-09-14 21:19 panic-2012-01-01/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg -rw------- 1 darxus darxus

I've got a problem for which the combination of -R and --link-dest doesn't seem to be quite enough---and I may have discovered a few small bugs as well; test cases are below. [And if someone has a scheme for doing this that doesn't involve rsync at all, but works okay, I'm all ears as well---I'm not the first with this problem.] Here's my problem: I unfortunately need to