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2011 Mar 11
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Unintuitive backwards-incompatible behaviour with rsync -a --link-dest --size-only
I use rsync to backup my system, using a command-line such as the following:
> rsync [src] [dst] -a --link-dest --size-only
In this case, [src] is produced by a command that makes no attempt to
preserve timestamps ("svnadmin hotcopy", in this case). That's why I use
--size-only.
Here's the rub: identical files aren't hard-linked like I expect them to be.
They're full