Problem with hard links

Matt McCutchen hashproduct+rsync at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 12:00:23 GMT 2007


On 10/5/07, limule pika <limulezzz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/28/07, Matt McCutchen <hashproduct+rsync at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]  If remembering the contents of even one of the
> > directories makes rsync run out of memory, you'll have to do something
> > different.
>
> Thanks for your reply.I think that there is too many files in S1 ...

> I'm using rsync to generate a copy of  a list of backups generated by
> backuppc, and unfortunately the structure of S1 and S2 are absolutely not
> the same ...

Then, unfortunately, there is no good way to preserve the hard links
without adding more memory to the system.

Matt


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