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There have been a lot of posts on the list lately about issues with hard links. It has been very interesting, but I don't understand it very thoroughly. I haven't used hard links for anything yet. I've used symlinks - not for backups, of course - and have seen them get broken or deleted in backups. Is there a tutorial anywhere that will explain how this works (assuming that the

For full system backup, rsync obviously needs to run as root on the machine being backed up For preservation of user/group/permissions info, rsync also typically needs to be run as root on the machine storing the backup - although there appear to be various ways to avoid this (e.g. using fakeroot -s, or running rsync inside a Xen VM which only stores the backup of one host) Can anyone comment on