rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?
Kevin Korb
kmk at sanitarium.net
Tue Jun 18 10:35:58 MDT 2013
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If you make a link to a link you make a link to all of its links. The
effect is the same.
On 06/18/13 12:27, Chris Dennis wrote:
> 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
>
>>
>>
>> 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 .
>>>
>>>> Thank you Kevin.
>>>
>>>> I'd forgotten that --link-dest needed a relative path. This
>>>> works for me:
>>>
>>>> rsync -Haxv --stats --link-dest ../dir1 dir1/ dir2
>>>
>>>> The / on the end of the second dir1 is, of course,
>>>> essential.
>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>
>>>> Chris
>
>
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