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...from one linux system to another, or from a windows system (with cwRsync) to a linux system. But when I try to do an rsync backup from one directory on a Windows system to another, it fails. The cwRsync says its version is 2.6.9. Here's my Rsync command, boiled down to its simplest: rsync -rlptgD -vvv --delete --delete-excluded --modify-window=2 --numeric-ids --link-dest=/cygdrive/c/crapbackup/backup4 /cygdrive/c/BackupSource/ /cygdrive/c/crapbackup/backup5/ I run this over and over, incrementing backup4 to backup5 for link-dest and backup5 to backup6 on the target dir. I can watch the n...

I am puzzled as to why I can't get the option --link-dest to work properly. When I use this option when both source and destinations are on a local filesystem the hard-linking of the target against the link-dest directory does work, but when the source is a remote directory (via ssh or rsync server) hard links are not created. I suspect it has something to do with setting the correct