On Wed 18 May 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: > It can be better to do a --compare-dest or --link-dest > into a new (empty) hierarchy, as this gives you a hierarchy with either > (for --compare-dest) just the new version of changed files in it or (for > --link-dest) all the files with identical files hard-linked together > with the older files.
What I've been wondering is whether --fuzzy will also work with --link-dest, i.e. hard-link to files whose names are slightly different but are the same for other purposes (e.g. log files that are rotated every day to log.2.gz, log.3.gz, etc.)? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
