Serious issue: rsync and hardlinks are dangerous...

Jesus Cea jcea at jcea.es
Thu Aug 9 19:48:16 MDT 2012


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On 10/08/12 03:08, Jesus Cea wrote:
> In my particular case, not using "-H" will explode my disk usage,
> but using "-H" will corrupt the destination.

Looks like not using "--inplace" would work, but I have multimegabyte
files to transfer thru a flacky residential ADSL line :-(

Also, this is already reported, but a bit "forgotten" (last comment
was three years ago): <https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3693>

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