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by CRD
26 Sep 2020, 15:36
Forum: Help
Topic: How to sync "symbolic links" in linux?
Replies: 47
Views: 4608

Re: How to sync "symbolic links" in linux?

Thank you , Zenju!

Just for reference, in case some one else is in the same situation, I'm syncing the symbolic links in the meanwhile using rsync:

rsync -avzu -e ssh "remotehost:/path/remotesymlink" "/path/localsynmlink"

(see rsync man page for details...)
by CRD
17 Sep 2020, 22:51
Forum: Help
Topic: How to sync "symbolic links" in linux?
Replies: 47
Views: 4608

Re: How to sync "symbolic links" in linux?

More details, in case it helps: I'm using FreeFileSync 11.1 on Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon...
by CRD
10 Sep 2020, 08:37
Forum: Help
Topic: How to sync "symbolic links" in linux?
Replies: 47
Views: 4608

Re: How to sync "symbolic links" in linux?

Hi Zenju,

The full message is:


Cannot copy symbolic link "sftp://server/folder/link" to "/folder/link".

Operation not supported between different devices.



Any ideas?
by CRD
09 Sep 2020, 20:21
Forum: Help
Topic: How to sync "symbolic links" in linux?
Replies: 47
Views: 4608

How to sync "symbolic links" in linux?

Hi there! I've just installed FFS and it seems really great. However, I'm trying to sync two linux machines and I cannot find, for my life, a way to sync symbolic links (which I want to be identical in both machines). I always get the error message "Operation not supported between different dev...