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.....) I'm trying to get a rotating daily backup going with previous days kept as hard links to save on network transfer and disk space. The plan: on day N, rsync to blah/N/, using --link-dest=../<N-1> (modulo 7 or whatever). My test command is: rsync -a --delete --link-dest=../1 ~/ siepie::gigs/teevie-jcw.backups/2/ When 1/ has data and 2/ is empty, the above command will properly create a backup, using the local data from 1/ (yeay!), but the files are not hard linked, even though they are identical (uid, mode, and all). I'm running 2.5.6 on both systems (two different Linu...