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On Saturday 20 November 2010 23:54:36 Pau Peris wrote: |
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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 |
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> /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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I haven't tried it, but have you experimented with these options: |
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-l, --links copy symlinks as symlinks |
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-L, --copy-links transform symlink into referent file/dir |
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--copy-unsafe-links only "unsafe" symlinks are transformed |
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--safe-links ignore symlinks that point outside the |
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tree |
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-k, --copy-dirlinks transform symlink to dir into referent dir |
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-K, --keep-dirlinks treat symlinked dir on receiver as dir |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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