Problems with link-dest

Matt McCutchen hashproduct+rsync at gmail.com
Thu May 11 20:49:42 GMT 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 22:41 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote:
> florian at horus ~/backupTest/2006-05-07/home/florian/Desktop/back $ ll
> insgesamt 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 florian users 4  7. Mai 13:36 file1
> 
> florian at horus ~/backupTest/2006-05-07_1/home/florian/Desktop/back $ ll
> insgesamt 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 florian users 4  7. Mai 13:37 file1

You need to tell rsync to preserve mtimes (--times or -t) for it to
notice that the file hasn't changed.  Otherwise, rsync copies the file
again instead of making a hard link.

Matt



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