On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> We are making an archival copy of the /library on one of our school >> servers. du -hc | grep total on the /library/users directory shows >> 4.7GB. Copying that over to a 16GB ext2 formatted USB took all night >> and is still going, and df -h from another console shows 7GB on te USB >> stick and its still writing. Any ideas how 4.7GB became 7GB? > > Ouch. Yes, I know how. We use hardlinked trees for backups. > > You want to use rsync with the -H option to preserve hardlinks, disk > space, and sanity.
Thanks! rsync -rH does it. cheers, Sameer _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
