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Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?



On Thursday 24 February 2011 07:13:29 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> On Qui, 24 Fev 2011, Tixy wrote:
> > What about hardlinks? I've always stuck to dd because I'm not confident
> > rsync will give me an exact enough copy to completely restore the
> > original from.
> 
> rsync can preserve hard links, but that's not enabled by default by
> -a. IIRC the option is -H (or maybe -h ?), but check the man page.

I use -HaAxX (mnemonic: "hacks") when archiving over rsync.  That preserves 
everything (hard/symlinks, ACLs, permissions, extended attributes, etc.).
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