[GRLUG] Rsync link-dest?

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 03:07:37PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> Trying to fix an rsnapshot backup, .. so the need is to copy
> 'weekly.0' to 'daily.0' where all the files in 'daily.0' are
> hard-links to the originals in 'weekly.0' [which may themselves be
> hard-links]. It would appear that the rsync command should be
> something like:
> 
> 	rsync -avH --link-dest=[path]/weekly.0   [path]/weekly.0   [path]/daily.0
> 
> Unfortunately, it refuses to set the links after trying many
> variations - what's missing?

Do you have a slash after the source weekly.0?  If not, it will copy 
weekly.0 to [path]/daily.0/weekly.0 and then the structure won't match 
the link-dest.  You'd want this to copy only the contents of weekly.0:

	rsync -avH --link-dest=[path]/weekly.0   [path]/weekly.0/   [path]/daily.0

-- 
Jeff DeFouw <mrj at plorb.com>

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