From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, pasky@suse.cz
Subject: Re: git, hardlinks and backups
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:05:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060710200543.GG13938@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060710195727.GA2246@elf.ucw.cz>
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?
$ rsync --help | grep "preserve hard links"
-H, --hard-links preserve hard links
$
> Pavel
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-10 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 19:57 git, hardlinks and backups Pavel Machek
2006-07-10 20:05 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
[not found] ` <20060710200501.GB30678@ojjektum.uhulinux.hu>
2006-07-10 20:07 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-10 20:07 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
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