[sf-lug] question about cp -al

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Alex Kleider (akleider at sonic.net):

> This never occurred to me- it wasn't mentioned by
> W. Curtis Preston: Backup & Recovery - O'Reilly
> but your suggestion got me studying man rsync and I think:
>             --link-dest=DIR         hardlink to files in DIR when
> unchanged
> is the option I want.
> Thanks for the idea!

Yr. welcome!  rsync is generally awesome for many copy operations,
especially those that update an existing copy, of course.

'Copying Directory Trees' on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Admin/ may be
useful (though it doesn't mention rsync's --link-dest=DIR option and
many others).

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