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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