Hi all, I have several AIX systems that would like to do incremental backup. I am using the rsync and cp -al to do that. However, since the entire system is made up of several filesystems on different VGs, I am getting the hard link cp problem, with this error: "Cannot link to a file on another device." How should I get around this problem? Many thanks. Sherry -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:34:45PM -0400, Sherry Sun wrote:> "Cannot link to a file on another device." > How should I get around this problem?Your only choices are to turn off -H (so that rsync copies hard-linked files as separate files) or to ensure that all dirs containing files that are cross-linked are on the same filesystem (perhaps by adjusting your destination hierarchies, or perhaps by using symlinked destination dirs and the --keep-dirlinks option to rsync). ..wayne..