21 Dec
2009
21 Dec
'09
8:39 p.m.
Tom H wrote:
Does there has way scp not change "link" setup?
I've always preferred 'rsync -essh -aHv source host:path' over scp for remote copies. It will generally get everything right and in the case where part of the content is already there it is much more efficient.
I know I'm going to be embarrassed by the answer to this one but I've checked a couple rsync and ssh references, including man rsync, and do not find an option -H. What is it?
-H, --hard-links preserve hard links
Most of the other options to create as exact a duplicate as possible are bundled into the '-a' option. However, since there is no efficient way to handle hardlink matching and recreation (it needs a brute-force inode table lookup), it is left separate.
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