rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

[Chris Dennis]

On 18/06/13 17:35, Kevin Korb wrote:
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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.

Good point -- I hadn't thought of it like that.  Thanks for the tip.

cheers

Chris
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> 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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