Am 25.07.2012 01:03, schrieb [email protected]: > Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> a bit OT as it is not gentoo-specific: >> >> how to move the data stored by rsnapshot from A to B ? >> >> I run an "rsync -a" and see that the target already uses up more space >> than the source. So all this linking seems not to be synced in the >> correct way, to save space. > Do you have the H option in your rsync -- I am pretty sure that options > says keep hard links.
Thanks to both of you, we try "rsync -aH" now. It would be worth testing if it also works to "replace copied files by hard links" with "-H" but I will have to do it elsewhere ... this is production data ... on a box with ancient version of LVM2 ... Thanks, Stefan
