Darwin rsync modifying source (?)
Darwin rsync modifying source (?)
- Subject: Darwin rsync modifying source (?)
- From: Ben Bond-Lamberty <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:18:14 -0600
(First, if this is not the corrrect place to post this question, please
accept my apologies. Neither the OS X server listserv nor googling has
turned up anything.)
Are there any known issues with rsync under Darwin and symlinks? I have a
"Data" drive, attached to a 10.3.6 OS X Server on a G5 Xserve, that looks
like this at its root:
drwxr-xr-x 20 useradmin AD\group 680 9 Dec 14:51 Users
drwxr-xr-x 56 webadmin extension 1904 10 Dec 08:56 Web
When (and only when) I issue the following command (as root), backing up
Data to an attached Firewire drive
rsync -a /Volumes/Data /Volumes/backup1/test
the Data drive's root becomes:
drwxr-xr-x 20 useradmin AD\group 680 9 Dec 14:51 Users
drwxr-xr-x 56 labadmin AD\group 1904 10 Dec 08:56 Web
(The AD\group is a Active Directory group.) In other words, rsync seems to
be modifying the user/group! This happens even if nothing has changed on
Data--e.g., I issue an rsync command, chown the Web folder back to its
correct permissions, and rsync again.
The only thing I've been able to figure out is that there is a symlink in
the User directory tree above that points to the Web folder. If I remove
this symlink, the behavior vanishes--rsync doesn't touch the user/group of
Web anymore.
Thanks for any insight-
Ben
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