Michal Soltys <nozo@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>>
>> I was thinking Michal Soltys ment it this way. You can probably
>> replace the cp invocation with an rsync one but that hardly changes
>> things.
>>
>> I don't think you can do this in a single rsync call. Please correct
>> me if I'm wrong.
>>
>
> something along this way:
>
> rsync <other options> --link-dest /backup/2007-01-01/ \
> rsync://user@server/module /backup/2007-01-02/
>
> It will create backup of .../module in ...-02 hardlinking to ...-01
> (if possible).
>
> So, no need for cp -l. There's similar example in rsync man. Also -
> multiple --link-dest are supported too.
Thanks, should have looked at --link-dest before replying. I wonder
how long rsync had that option. I wrote my own rsync script years
ago. Maybe it predates this.
MfG
Goswin
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