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

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Subject: Re: dd or cp over network: should I use scp?
From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:13:29 -0300
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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.




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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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