Links, oh my!

Hail All. Congrats on a utility I had on my list to write! :) Good thing 
I looked before coding.

I've been using rsnapshot for a few months now, and I have a situation 
that raises some questions.

Example file structure on client:
/foo
/foo/bar
/foo/bar/you
/foo/bar/you_chou -> /foo/man/chou
/foo/man/chou

The key is that /foo/bar/you_chou is a soft link to /foo/man/chou. After 
this was backed up by rsnapshot I got an error while it was trying to do 
a "chgrp" on the server of /foo/bar/you_chou, saying "No such file or 
directory". On the server the link /foo/bar/you_chou properly points to 
/foo/man/chou, but of course /foo/man/chou does not exist on the server. 
So the chgrp fails. Not a terribly big deal, but a bunch of links would 
be quite verbose in their failing.

This however, raises a question. I have recently removed the link and 
the directory the link was pointing to. I STILL receive the same error. 
What concerns me is that in the latest daily which is supposedly 3 days 
past when I removed the culprits, I still see them! Is rsync not using 
--delete? Are my backups not reflecting all of the changes that are 
occurring? Is it simply capturing additions? Or is rsnapshot dying on 
this error and I really don't have a complete backup (Oh MY!)

Let's discuss!

Cheers,

Ben Lake



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