Copying hard-linked tree structure

[jw schultz]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:56:49PM -0600, Max Kipness wrote:
> > I have a tree structure on one server similar to the following:
> >  
> > /Current
> > /01-04-2003
> > /01-03-2003
> >  
> > etc...
> >  
> > /Current holds the most recent rsynced data, and the date 
> > directories are created with cp -al on a daily basis so they 
> > are hard-linked. I'm going back 60 days.
> >  
> > The question is how can I move this entire structure to a new 
> > server and preserve the links from the date directories to 
> > the /Current directory?
> 
> Well, I ended up rsyncing the root directory to the new server with the
> -H option and it seemed to work. I have 30 directories for 30 days of
> rotating backups.
> 
> However, I had a dir called /Current that had 12Gbs and then all the
> /date directories had 120mb, 60mb, etc...the daily changes that
> occurred. Well now the directory called /01-01-2004 has 12Gb and
> /Current has like 100mb. I guess /01-01-2004 went first do to sorting.

It has to do with the tool you are using to measure them.

> Anyway to change /Current back as the real directory? Or does it even
> matter?

What do you man "real".  With hardlinks all links for an
inode are equal.

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