Hi folks, I've been googling around for awhile but I can't seem to find an answer to my question.
I have a number of filesystems that contain thousands of hard links due to some bad organization of data. Rsync, cpio and various other utilities fail to copy this data because I think there might be some cycles in it. (you know you have troubles if cpio can't copy it!) What I thought I would do instead is to copy the data but skip any files that are hard links. Then after the copy is finished, I will use some kind of find . -type l type command that finds the hard links and then make a script to recreate it. This saves me a lot of trouble with not having to stat the files and not having the receive side balloon up. Is there a way to have it skip hard links when doing an rsync? Or is there some other mystic incantation that I can use that might accomplish the same thing. Thanks, sri -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
