Force rsync to copy symlink, even if referent does not exist
I am getting this message with rsync:
symlink has no referent: "/a/path"
Well, rsync is right: in the source filesystem, the (symbolic) link is pointing to a non-existent location. That is intended. The target of the link only exists in the destination filesystem. And I want rsync to ignore that fact and create the symlink in the destination.
How can I force rsync to do that?
Solution 1:
Use -a option with rsync.
It will copy the broken symlinks too.
Something like this:
# rsync -av source host:destination