Re: grsync (rsync) usage question

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 20:25 -0700, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 13:15 -0500, Default User wrote:
One of the "advanced" options in Grsync (gui for rsync) is to "copy
symlinks as symlinks", which is apparently not the default. Well, why
not? Shouldn't that be the default?

When backing up, when would one NOT want to "copy symlinks as
symlinks" (rather than the file a symlink "points to" instead)?

The -a (archive) options turns on the -l option among other options. I
usually use rsync using:

rsync -az

which is equivalent to:

rsync -rlptgoD

It is odd the GUI frontend does not turn on -l by default, since you can
easily get into recursive symlink loops with it off.
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Thanks for the reply. BTW, do you run rsync from within a live, running
Ubuntu system, or from a live cd to operate on "dead", unmounted
filesystems (to accurately copy/move/etc files that would be in a
dynamic state on a live, mounted filesystem)?




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