I noticed in looking at download dirs for a project, that another mirror had "crept-in" for usage (where different mirrors are stored under mirror-URL names). To copy over the diffs, normally I'd do: rsync -uav dir1/. dir2/. (where dir1="the new mirror that I'd switched to by accident, and dir2=the original dir).
The files were "smallish" so I just copied them, BUT I wass wondering if there was an option similar to using 'cp' for a dircopy, but instead of cp -a dr1 dr2 using: cp -al dr1 dr2 to just hard-link over files from "dir1" to "dir2" (both are on the same file system). I looked at (and tried) --link-dest=DIR (hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged), but either I had the syntax wrong, or didn't understand it as it didn't seem to do what I wanted: cp'ing the new files in dir1 into the orig dir). Does rsync have an option to just "copy" over the new files via a hardlink? Tnx! -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
