Have you checked your destination storage allows hard linking? If it
doesn't then that's probably the reason rsync is failing. Otherwise, it
should work perfectly, rsync is the 1st choice for such tasks, rock solid
and 100% reliable.

Rubén Pérez
TELTEK Video Research
www.teltek.es



2012/11/27 WEI YAO (RIT Student) <[email protected]>

> Hi Stephanie,
>
> I have done the same process by tar command:
>
> $ tar -cf /new/volume/work.tar /opt/matterhorn/felix/work/*
> $ cd /new/volume
> $ tar xv work.tar
> $ rm work.tar
>
> It looks that tar works well with hard links. Note: the free space of the
> new volume must be at least two times of the old work folder for the tar
> file and the new work folder.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Wei
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Stephanie Fuller <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>  Thanks so much for the suggestion, Ruben.  I had forgotten to try
>> rsync.
>> However, it still filled up the new volume.
>> I will keep looking for ways to copy files without duplicating every hard
>> link.
>> Stephanie
>>
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