<div>On 11/13/06, Johan Ramm-Ericson <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@ramm-ericson.se">ubuntu@ramm-ericson.se</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, November 13, 2006 02:48, <a href="mailto:wangpenghui@gmail.com">wangpenghui@gmail.com</a> wrote: > Hello list, Hi. > Recently, i am using rsync to sync two directories which located in two > different hosts. > > There is something unclearly to me. I digged in the web for a while, but > there aren't useful things for me. You would have found it in the man page for rsync or at : <a href="http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html">http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html</a> > Here is my puzzle: > > I want to sync one big directory from one host to a remote host. And there > are several symbolic links which linked to some files and directories that > outside the certain directory. I want to copy the symbolic links as real > file or directory. > snip .. < Something like this: rsync -avL hostA:/path/to/source/dir/ hostB:/path/to/destination/dir/</blockquote><div> Thanks very much for your response. I have found the reason why the links could not copied. It because i have not set "use chroot = no " in the rsyncd.conf. And the default value is yes. Now, with the -L (--copy-links) parameter, it works great. Thanks again for your help. Wang. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> /johan -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div> -- Wang Penghui +86 592 8389 650