Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:07:58 +0200 | From | Rutger Nijlunsing <> | Subject | Re: git, hardlinks and backups |
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 09:57:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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? > Pavel
Why can't rsync preserve them? Doesn't 'rsync --hard-links' work? (however, it can only work if you rsync all paths at once so rsync gets to see that the inodes match)
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