On Tue 28 Aug 2007, Larry Alkoff wrote: > I have an rsync cron script that copies one entire hard drive containing > hard links to another drive. It does this by selecting the directories > to be rsync'ed and copying them one by one. > > My rsync line is: > rsync -uav source/ target > and the problem is this would not copy hard links. > > If I change the rsync line to: > rsync uaHv --delete source/ target > will the files copied using the original line be deleted and replaced > with hard links?
The first one encountered won't, but the rest will :-) $ mkdir from to $ dd if=/dev/zero of=from/a count=20 20+0 records in 20+0 records out 10240 bytes (10 kB) copied, 0.000276 seconds, 37.1 MB/s $ ln from/a from/b $ rsync -av from/ to building file list ... done ./ a b sent 20671 bytes received 70 bytes 41482.00 bytes/sec total size is 20480 speedup is 0.99 $ ls -li to total 24 149983 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul staff 10240 Aug 28 18:29 a 149987 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul staff 10240 Aug 28 18:29 b $ rsync -avH from/ to building file list ... done b => a sent 115 bytes received 28 bytes 286.00 bytes/sec total size is 20480 speedup is 143.22 $ ls -li to total 24 149983 -rw-r--r-- 2 paul staff 10240 Aug 28 18:29 a 149983 -rw-r--r-- 2 paul staff 10240 Aug 28 18:29 b Note the inode number of the first file (to/a) doesn't change, the second file becomes linked to that one. 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
