On 14 March 2017 at 14:36, David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > > Doing a quick test, it appears that rsync copies hard linked files as if > each were a different file: > > rsync -a hard-link-1/ hard-link-2 Here, 'man rsync' says: "Note that -a does not preserve hardlinks, because finding multiply-linked files is expensive. You must separately specify -H."