[buug] backup a dir with hard links

[Jeremy Brand]

Hi John,

You might want to experiment with the -H option to rsync.


Jeremy

Thus spake John de la Garza:

> 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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