Re: git, hardlinks and backups

Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-07-10T20:08:01Z

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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