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Sparse doesn't work on some filesystems (explained in man rsync).
Other than that it is fine. Any file that has a big chunk of null
characters will be written sparsely and take up less space.
Note that you can't always use it when restoring. Do not restore
/boot with --sparse or you will find that grub can't read the kernel.
On 09/05/12 11:45, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
Hi,
I'm using rsync with --link-dest to do backups. I don't have any
sparse files, but someday I might. Should I be using --sparse?
I notice that -S is not implied by -a. This makes me suspicious
that --sparse is not (yet?) suitable for general purpose use.
There also seem to be outstanding bugs related to --sparse.
Thanks.
Karl k...@meme.com Free Software: You don't pay back, you pay
forward. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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