[clue-tech] filesystem copy

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Mon Jan 1 22:36:24 MST 2007


David L. Willson wrote:
> I want to copy an entire ext3 filesystem, which includes lots of
> hard-links, to another drive.  I use a 500GB volume to maintain daily
> copies of a 320GB volume, where every unchanged file is actually a
> hard-link to the file from the day before (single-instance storage).  I
> want to replicate that volume to another 500GB volume without turning
> each hard-link into a file on the target, and without rewriting the
> entire drive every time.  Ideas?
>   
rsync -aH






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