On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:36:59PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > >and the destination ended up bigger, > >possibly because one or more of the backups on the source had been using some > >kind of hardlink de-dupe (I've ranted about hardlink trees being a problem in > >various backup topics on -user, too...) and I didn't think to supply -S to > >rsync. > > -S is for sparse files.
Sorry, you are right. I did not use -S nor -H, so sparse files would be expanded, and hard links re-referenced in my copy. I'm not sure which (or both) were a problem in my case. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
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