[buug] backup a dir with hard links

jwithers grayarea at reddagger.org
Tue Feb 13 12:45:32 PST 2007


http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-June/009666.html

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:56 -0800, John de la Garza wrote:
> 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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