Re: git, hardlinks and backups

Adrian Bunk
2006-07-10T20:05:46Z

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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