I just tried to use rsync to backup my home directory to a windows share, and it seems to have choked trying to move the symlinks.
The command I used is:
Code:
rsync -aE --exclude="/.config/xpad/" --exclude="/Examples" --exclude="/.dbus/" --modify-window=2 /home/christopher/ /media/christopher_files/Backup/CONROE/home/christopher/
But after running that I got a whole bunch of errors which seem to be related to symlinks:
Code:
rsync: symlink "/media/christopher_files/Backup/CONROE/home/christopher/wine-git/programs/winver/winver" -> "../../tools/winewrapper" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/media/christopher_files/Backup/CONROE/home/christopher/wine-git/programs/wordpad/wordpad" -> "../../tools/winewrapper" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/media/christopher_files/Backup/CONROE/home/christopher/wine-git/programs/write/write" -> "../../tools/winewrapper" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/media/christopher_files/Backup/CONROE/home/christopher/wine-git/programs/xcopy/xcopy" -> "../../tools/winewrapper" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/media/christopher_files/Backup/CONROE/home/christopher/wine-git/tools/winegcc/winecpp" -> "winegcc" failed: Operation not supported (95)
rsync: symlink "/media/christopher_files/Backup/CONROE/home/christopher/wine-git/tools/winegcc/wineg++" -> "winegcc" failed: Operation not supported (95)
That's just a few of them. I get pages and pages of that. Is there another option I need to add, or do samba shares not support symlinks? Would it help if I installed rsync on the Windows server, using Cygwin?
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