Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:07:28 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: git, hardlinks and backups |
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Hi!
> > I know this may be stupid, but... > > > > I'm backing up my linux kernel trees, and found out that backup (done > > by rsync) is twice as big as original. That's quite bad... it is > > because git uses hardlinks heavily but rsync can't preserve them. > > > > I'm pretty sure someone hit this before... what is the trick? > > The -H option of rsync?
Okay, I was blind, sorry.
For those who made same mistake... utility called freedups should be able to clean that up. Pavel
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