[Tfug] rsync question

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 2 21:21:28 CDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 05:02:15PM -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I use rsync as part of my scripted bi-hourly snapshot process on a multi-user
> machine.  Since it is multi-user, many of the files are owned by others and I
> don't need to or want to care about things like broken links.  However, after
> one user cleaned up a bunch of his files, my script is now giving errors like:
> 
> rsync: link_stat "/d1/matlab/nmilton/fourier" (in root) failed: No such file
> or directory (2)

Is this perhaps a hard link and you need -aH ?  Just off the top of my
head..

-- 
Tom Rini



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