Subject should be enough: are hardlinks supported when rsyncing over ssh? I know that I cannot do anything with hardlinks if I'm using SSHFS over FUSE, I was wondering if rsync is plagued by the same problem. Matt
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 15:53 -0500, Matthew Monaco wrote:> Subject should be enough: are hardlinks supported when rsyncing over ssh?Rsync's --hard-links option preserves hard links; the type of connection being used (ssh or otherwise) does not matter. See the man page description of --hard-links for details and caveats. Matt
If you use FUSE then you can mount a virtual file sytem and then use hard links. The LBackup project has some pre and post scripts which deal with mounting and unmounting disk images via MacFUSE. Have a look at the following URL which has futher inforamtion regarding this setup : http://connect.homeunix.com/lbackup/doku.php?id=network_backup_strategies Hope this helps.
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