[buug] backup a dir with hard links

John de la Garza john at jjdev.com
Tue Feb 13 11:56:28 PST 2007


If I have a file and create a hard link to it like:

touch foo
ln foo bar

and want to back up the directory that contains this link, it seems  
that cp and rsync are not able to keep the link structure but if I  
use tar it does keep it

Is it possible to keep the links with cp or rsync or must I use tar  
or another archiving thing?  I have tried cp -RH which is not the way  
to go...



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