Rsync is a high quality tool, but I was surprised to learn how poorly the hardlink preservation is handled. It keeps a list of inodes for ALL files, not just ones with outstanding hardlink counts. The good news is that plans for rsync 3.0 include fixing this. This could be even more efficient by tracking the senders inode instead of file names, with the receiver keeping a remote-to-local inode lookup table. I don't know what the current development version actually does. Maybe someone here facing backup mirroring problems could try out an rsync-3 pre-release.
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