Using rsync with link-dest from HFS to NTFS

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Published on 2010-07-20T13:35:29Z Indexed on 2010/12/25 16:55 UTC
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Hi,

I'm having a problem with rsync.

I'm on a Mac and I'd like to sync my everyday's changes from my HFS+ partition to my NTFS formated networked drive.

Pretty simple, and everything goes well except that it syncs every file each times.

Here's my script:

#! /bin/sh

snapshot_dir=/Volumes/USB_Storage/Backups
snapshot_id=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`

/usr/bin/rsync -a \
  --verbose \
  --delete --delete-excluded \
  --human-readable --progress \
  --one-file-system \
  --partial \
  --modify-window=1 \
  --exclude-from=.backup_excludes \
  --link-dest ../current \
  /Users/tommybergeron/Desktop/Brainpad \
  $snapshot_dir/in-progress

cd $snapshot_dir
rm -rf $snapshot_id
mv in-progress $snapshot_id
rm -f current
ln -s $snapshot_id $snapshot_dir/current

Could someone help me out please? I've been searching for like two hours and I still am clueless.

Thanks so much.

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