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blueFast
Asked: 2013-01-14 09:03:19 +0800 CST

Force rsync to copy symlink, even if referent does not exist

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I am getting this message with rsync:

symlink has no referent: "/a/path"

Well, rsync is right: in the source filesystem, the (symbolic) link is pointing to a non-existent location. That is intended. The target of the link only exists in the destination filesystem. And I want rsync to ignore that fact and create the symlink in the destination.

How can I force rsync to do that?

linux

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use -a option with rsync.

    It will copy the broken symlinks too.

    Something like this:

     # rsync -av source host:destination
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