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Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. |
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Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that |
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symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as |
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soon a paths get changed. look at the example: |
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$ ls -la /mnt/rsync/vista/ |
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wxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 nov 11 17:41 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 5 nov 20 12:10 .. |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 mar 24 2009 Archivos de programa -> |
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/mnt/vista/Program Files |
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drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 mar 24 2009 Boot |
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-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 333203 ene 21 2008 bootmgr |
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-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 mar 24 2009 BOOTSECT.BAK |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 nov 2 2006 Documents and Settings -> |
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/mnt/vista/Users |
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-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 171136 sep 4 2009 grldr |
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-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 171136 sep 2 2009 grldr.bak |
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drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 jun 1 2009 Jocs |
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-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 904704 dic 1 2006 msdia80.dll |
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drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 oct 27 17:03 ProgramData |
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drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 sep 6 21:58 Program Files |
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drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 oct 11 16:43 Program Files (x86) |
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drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 mar 24 2009 RaidTool |
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drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 mar 27 2010 $Recycle.Bin |
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drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 mar 24 2009 System Volume Information |
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drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 mar 24 2009 Users |
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drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 264 nov 11 16:23 Windows |
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The symlink "Archivos de programa -> /mnt/vista/Program Files" is |
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wrong, it should point to the relative path, something like "Archivos |
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de programa -> Program Files". rsync is called this way: |
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rsync -aERPv --progress rsync://localhost/Windows-Vista-backup /mnt/rsync/vista/ |
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Do someone know which should be the correct options to create clone |
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backup without breaking permissions neither symlinks? thanks in |
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advanced :) |
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