--link-dest

Matt McCutchen hashproduct+rsync at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 00:20:33 GMT 2007


On 1/2/07, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com <tony.chamberlain at lemko.com> wrote:
>     cp -r source dest

That command doesn't copy modification times, so files in dest get
newer modification times than files in src, so rsync is right to not
make hard links.  Try "cp -a source dest" instead.

Matt


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