Copying hard-linked tree structure

Max Kipness
2004-01-07T19:57:28Z

> I have a tree structure on one server similar to the following:
>
> /Current
> /01-04-2003
> /01-03-2003
>
> etc...
>
> /Current holds the most recent rsynced data, and the date
> directories are created with cp -al on a daily basis so they
> are hard-linked. I'm going back 60 days.
>
> The question is how can I move this entire structure to a new
> server and preserve the links from the date directories to
> the /Current directory?

Well, I ended up rsyncing the root directory to the new server with the
-H option and it seemed to work. I have 30 directories for 30 days of
rotating backups.

However, I had a dir called /Current that had 12Gbs and then all the
/date directories had 120mb, 60mb, etc...the daily changes that
occurred. Well now the directory called /01-01-2004 has 12Gb and
/Current has like 100mb. I guess /01-01-2004 went first do to sorting.

Anyway to change /Current back as the real directory? Or does it even
matter?

Thanks,
Max