Hi,
I'm using rsync with --link-dest to do backups.
I don't have any sparse files, but someday I might.
Should I be using --sparse?
I notice that -S is not implied by -a. This makes
me suspicious that --sparse is not (yet?) suitable
for general purpose use. There also seem to be
outstanding
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Sparse doesn't work on some filesystems (explained in man rsync).
Other than that it is fine. Any file that has a big chunk of null
characters will be written sparsely and take up less space.
Note that you can't always use it when restoring. Do not
