On rsync I use usually those options

Now I want to make a PERFECT copy of local fs,to existent remote fs.
With -avP I see this things

on local
on remote
I want to make bin a symlink also on remote,without use workarounds,like find,rm,etc..
Is possible?

I think you just need to add '-H'.

No, -P does not mean perfect (Sorry, could not help myself)

But seriously, this is strange. -H as AwesomeMachine suggests has to do with hardlinks. You are talking about symlinks.

You should use -l for "copy symlinks as symlinks"

But -l is implied in the use of -a. As a matter of fact, -a is THE recommended way to make a perfect copy. And I can assure you -a copy symlinks as symlinks

Where exactly do you see on the remote host? rsync does not display anything on the remote host.

And what is the exact command you give on the local machine to initiate the rsync copy?

jlinkels

-avH should be cool.

Why? -H is about hard links. The OP talks about symlinks. What is it I am overlooking? I know the difference between hard links and symlinks.

jlinkels

Solution found

a)use those options of rsync

b)never sync the dir "directly", for example

There is no difference in those 2 commands except the first one only copies the /mnt/hd/bin/ directory content while retaining the path, and the second copies all the content of the /mnt/hd/ directory.

The error is that your first command says copy the content of this source directory to this (non-existing) file. The second says copy the content of this source directory to this (existing) directory.

What is wrong about the first and correct about the second is that the destination directory must exist when using that syntax.

Changing the first command to read
would work as expected since that would create the missing directory before copying the files.

The same effect could be achieved with
Both these structures say copy this source directory and content into the destination directory.

Read the details of the rsync man page explanations of syntax to understand the differences.

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