From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422692AbWGJUFq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:05:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422695AbWGJUFq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:05:46 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:28426 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422692AbWGJUFp (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:05:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:05:44 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Pavel Machek Cc: kernel list , pasky@suse.cz Subject: Re: git, hardlinks and backups Message-ID: <20060710200543.GG13938@stusta.de> References: <20060710195727.GA2246@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060710195727.GA2246@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed