rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

[Chris Dennis]

On 18/06/13 16:53, Kevin Korb wrote:
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> The -H there isn't needed and could only cause increased memory usage.

I realise that --link-dest implies hard links between directories, but I 
use -H as well to maintain any hard links within the source directory. 
Does that make sense?

cheers

Chris

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> On 06/18/13 11:49, Chris Dennis wrote:
>> On 18/06/13 15:02, Kevin Korb wrote: rsync -vai
>> --lin-dest=/path/to/source/ /path/to/source/ /path/to/target/ Note
>> that if you try it with relative paths the link-dest will be
>> relative to the source not .
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>>> Thank you Kevin.
>>
>>> I'd forgotten that --link-dest needed a relative path.  This
>>> works for me:
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>>> rsync -Haxv --stats --link-dest ../dir1 dir1/ dir2
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>>> The / on the end of the second dir1 is, of course, essential.
>>
>>> cheers
>>
>>> Chris


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