On Sat 07 Jan 2006, Sebastien Koechlin wrote:
> Package: rsync
> Version: 2.6.4-6
> Severity: normal
>
> When using rsync to do backup of a remote host, rsync is doing a copy for
> each name of a hard link:
>
> rsync --archive --delete --partial-dir=/tmp/rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/data
> /backup/host/
>From the manpage:
Note that -a does not preserve hardlinks, because finding multi-
ply-linked files is expensive. You must separately specify -H.
...
-H, --hard-links
This tells rsync to recreate hard links on the remote system
to be the same as the local system. Without this option hard
links are treated like regular files.
Note that rsync can only detect hard links if both parts of the
link are in the list of files being sent.
This option can be quite slow, so only use it if you need it.
Paul Slootman
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