jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Since you don't show command lines i cannot comment.
Okay, just for reference, in the following examples I am sync'ing the popt subdirectory in the latest rsync distribution. My user name and group name are the same on both sides, and the directory popt is on the home directory on both hosts: On hosta, this will work to produce both two directories complete with hard links: rsync -avcz hosta:popt aaa rsync -avcz --link-dest=`pwd`/aaa hosta:popt bbb The status shown after the latter operation is as follows: wrote 16 bytes read 557 bytes 1146.00 bytes/sec total size is 81037 speedup is 141.43 Similiarly, on hostb this will work to produce two directories complete with hard links: rsync -avcz hostb:popt aaa rsync -avcz --link-dest=`pwd`/aaa hostb:popt bbb The status after the last operation is: wrote 16 bytes read 547 bytes 160.86 bytes/sec total size is 81037 speedup is 143.94 I then run the following commands on hosta: rsync -avcz hostb:popt aaa rsync -avcz --link-dest=`pwd`/aaa hostb:popt bbb The status after the last operation is: wrote 972 bytes read 1044 bytes 1344.00 bytes/sec total size is 81037 speedup is 40.20 and the files are not linked -- i assume some files have been copied across, as there's more speedup than I see by compression alone. Finally, the following on hosta will also work to create two directories plus hard links: rsync -avcz hostb:popt aaa rsync -avcz --link-dest=`pwd`/aaa hosta:popt bbb -- He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
