On Thursday 24 February 2011 07:13:29 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 24 Fev 2011, Tixy wrote: > > What about hardlinks? I've always stuck to dd because I'm not confident > > rsync will give me an exact enough copy to completely restore the > > original from. > > rsync can preserve hard links, but that's not enabled by default by > -a. IIRC the option is -H (or maybe -h ?), but check the man page.
I use -HaAxX (mnemonic: "hacks") when archiving over rsync. That preserves everything (hard/symlinks, ACLs, permissions, extended attributes, etc.). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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