[buug] backup a dir with hard links

[John de la Garza]

I maybe misreading, but I don't understand how this link applies to  
me.  I am not having a problem with sym links, but rather hard links  
(which, as you probably know can only be files not directories, like  
the link you posted talks about)

I am I missing something?

I want my copy to have the same hard links as the source.


On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:45 PM, jwithers wrote:

> 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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