Calling rsync testers...

William Stockall wstockal at compusmart.ab.ca
Thu Jan 29 14:45:21 UTC 2004


rsync -H will preserve hard links.

		Will.

Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:57:32AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 
>>OK, we've mirrored the whole tree, using hard-linking, but only Red
> 
> 
> How did you do this?
> 
> I've tried pre-hardlinking my Red Hat mirror to the fedora legacy tree
> (following http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraMirrorHOWTO), but every
> time I start rsync, it un-hardlinks the files and redownloads them.  I
> moved the linked files to the single i386 and SRPMS directories for
> legacy, and the dates, times, and file sizes match.  The contents are
> also identical.  For example, these are commands I am using for 7.2
> updates:
> 
> rm -rf \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora-legacy/redhat/7.2/updates/*
> 
> cp -al \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/i[3456]86 \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/athlon \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/noarch \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/SRPMS \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora-legacy/redhat/7.2/updates
> 
> mv \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora-legacy/redhat/7.2/updates/i[456]86/* \
> 	/home/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora-legacy/redhat/7.2/updates/athlon/* \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora-legacy/redhat/7.2/updates/noarch/* \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora-legacy/redhat/7.2/updates/i386
> 
> rm -rf \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora-legacy/redhat/7.2/updates/i[456]86 \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora-legacy/redhat/7.2/updates/athlon \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora-legacy/redhat/7.2/updates/noarch
> 
> rsync -auv \
>         rsync://download.fedoralegacy.org/legacy/redhat/7.2/updates \
>         /home/ftp/pub/mirrors/fedora-legacy/redhat/7.2
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how to make rsync not undo the hardlinking?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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