On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:02:04AM +0100, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
> Out of interest, if Rich copies all the dated backup directories to
> the new hard drive, will the hard links be preserved between the daily
> images that contain the same files or will each file copy as unique?

I believe rsync -aHv does the job for transferring dirvish
repositories, so I presume it would also work for writing back
to disk. tar can also handle hard links and I have not checked
cp to see if it has a similar switch. Probably does.

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