I have a backup drive that I'm trying to replace with a larger one and I need to transfer what's on it now to the new drive. The data was backed up using RSYNC, and some of the data's hardlinked (through cp -al) and I'd like to preserve all of that. Do I simply run 'cp -aR <source> <dest>' and hope for the best? I mean, will the hardlinks transfer over, and will the timestamps will be the same?
The current structure is:
daily.05 daily.04 daily.03 daily.02 <-- this is a 'cp -al' version of daily.01 daily.01 <-- data gets RSYNCed in here
And every night that structure gets pushed up (.05 deleted, .02 to .04 shifted up, .02 gets created by cp -al .01, and then rsync runs on .01)
I need this structure, and the linking, to stay as is when I transfer the data from one drive to the other.
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