rsync (http://www.samba.org/rsync/) should do what you want (and is
probably already installed, and tunnels over an ssh connection for
extra security, and has other features that probably make it a perfect
match for your needs as well :)

On 3/9/06, Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a backup server in my LAN that keeps some rsnapshot
> (www.rsnapshot.org) backups. For those of you who don't know the tool,
> rsnapshot works by taking incremental backups, hard linking the files
> that don't change from one backup to the next (thus, keeping the
> consecutive backups smaller than the first big one.)
>
> I want to send these backups to a remote server every day or so. I
> tried scp'ing it, but scp resolves the hard links, causing me
> headaches and too much space to be used in my remote server. I then
> tried SSHFS (sshfs.sourceforge.net), and the same thing happened. Same
> applies to SHFS.
>
> I know NFS would keep the hard links instead of resolving them (cp
> -d), but I'm not up to put NFS over the internet since that can be a
> bad idea from the security standpoint. So my question is: is there a
> way for me to make that transfer and keep the hard links?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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