rsync - Feb 2010 - rsync: stat "/path/to/dest/file" failed: No such file or directory (2)

Well, the title says it all..

I tried to research on this subject, but didn't find anything conclusive to
me.

Can somebody explain that error? If the file on destination isnt there, why
not just copy it from source, why an error?

I did a backup with rsync -aH --linkdest="/path/to/linkdir"
/path/to/original /path/to/backup... basically rsyncing into an empty
hierarchy. No errors here.

Now, the errors come when i try to recover, after replacing the original
harddrive with an older disk backup.
The command is

rsync -aH --delete /path/to/backup/ /path/to/original/
this is when i get this error:

rsync: stat "/path/to/original/file" failed: No such file or directory
(2)

many files have changed since but the main hierarchy stayed the same...

what is the problem?

Thanks for clarifying me on that.

PS: rsync is running in "local" mode where the /path/to/original is an
nfs
mounted filesystem.


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okay, here is an update:

I tried removing the -H option on the recovery part and I dont get the error
anymore...
so the files it was complaining about were all hard links... but I still
don't get it. Am i recovering to the exact same image as when the backup was
taken? For now, all my tries were dry-runs, blut without -H, hard links are
supposed to be treated as independent files, so the occupied volume will be
increased once recovered... and with 40 000  hard links that I have in the
hierarchy, I might run out of disk space...
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