--link-dest doesn't work if target file exists (but needs updating)
Henri Shustak
henri.shustak at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 13:37:54 MST 2012
> On 12-01-20 06:01 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
>> Someone has requested it:
>> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7870
>
> I'm not really sure that is the same bug. Maybe it is. Not convinced
> though. I guess I can file my own bug and ask 7870's OP to see if it's
> the same issue.
>
>> But is seems like an rm -rf and a cp -al would do the same thing.
>
> But as I said before, it won't. Not all files in the destination are
> the same as the source and files may exist in the destination that don't
> exist in the source.
Is what you are trying to achieve part of a backup system / script?
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