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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Les Mikesell
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