Re: [BackupPC-devel] Does rsync backend preserve hard links?

[Klaus W. <Kla...@gm...>]

Hello,

> But it mentions GNU tar.  Does using rsync mean you can't restore links?

I am not sure if this will help you, but how does your rsync paramaters look 
like in your BackupPC configuration? I am not sure how BackupPC handles this 
inside, but if it is just a rsync issue take a look at this from 'man rsync':
-a, --archive
              This is equivalent to -rlptgoD. It is a quick way of saying you 
want  recursion  and  want  to  preserve  almost everything (with -H being a 
notable omission).  The only exception to the above equivalence is when 
--files-from is specified, in which case -r is not implied.
              Note that -a does not preserve hardlinks, because finding 
multiply-linked files is expensive.   You  must  separately specify -H.

-- 
take care!

xo,klaus