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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unable to preserve hard links. Why? Post 302448667 by ygemici on Thursday 26th of August 2010 03:05:05 PM
Old 08-26-2010
actually hard link is like directory record..so inode nums can change when in new dir..

Code:
 
touch a
ln a b

Code:
tar -cvf hard.tar *
a
b

Code:
# ls -li *
65194 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 10240 Jun 25 03:20 a
65194 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 10240 Jun 25 03:20 b
65423 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20480 Jun 25 03:22 hard.tar

Code:
rsync -H -avve "ssh localhost" /xx/dirrss/test1 /xx/dirrss/oba/*

building file list ...
done
delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file
"a" is a hard link
b
hard.tar
test1/
a => b
total: matches=0  hash_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=30720
...............
....................

Code:
ls -li test1/
total 48
65485 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 10240 Jun 25 03:20 a
65485 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 10240 Jun 25 03:20 b
65497 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20480 Jun 25 03:22 hard.tar
65484 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jun 25 03:22 test1

at the result pair of files are same data and same inode and hard link preserve Smilie
 

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