For example, on Windows, the gawk.1 and pgawk.1 manpage are hard
linked as shown by 'ls':
$ls -i /c/cygwin/usr/share/man/man1/*gawk.1
844424930186282 /c/cygwin/usr/share/man/man1/gawk.1
844424930186283 /c/cygwin/usr/share/man/man1/igawk.1
844424930186282 /c/cygwin/usr/share/man/man1/pgawk.1

Running straight rsync preserves hard links as desired.:
$ rsync -avxXH -e "ssh -l kosowsky" 
wincomputer:/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/man/man1/*gawk* .
receiving incremental file list
igawk.1
pgawk.1
gawk.1 => pgawk.1

$ ls -inl *gawk*
ls -inl
total 184
1130522 -rw-r--r-- 2 501 501 78716 Jul 24 08:57 gawk.1
1130521 -rw-r--r-- 1 501 501  1160 Jul 24 08:57 igawk.1
1130522 -rw-r--r-- 2 501 501 78716 Jul 24 08:57 pgawk.1


So rsync alone works. 
However, BackupPC_attribPrint shows that all the gawk files are backed
up as regular files (type=0) rather than as special hard link types.
'igawk.1' => {
    'uid' => 1005,
    'mtime' => 1193390884,
    'mode' => 33216,
    'size' => 1160,
    'sizeDiv4GB' => 0,
    'type' => 0,
    'gid' => 513,
    'sizeMod4GB' => 1160
  },
 'gawk.1' => {
    'uid' => 1005,
    'mtime' => 1193390883,
    'mode' => 33216,
    'size' => 78211,
    'sizeDiv4GB' => 0,
    'type' => 0,
    'gid' => 513,
    'sizeMod4GB' => 78211
  },
 'pgawk.1' => {
    'uid' => 1005,
    'mtime' => 1196873396,
    'mode' => 33216,
    'size' => 78211,
    'sizeDiv4GB' => 0,
    'type' => 0,
    'gid' => 513,
    'sizeMod4GB' => 78211
  }
Also, the mtimes are not the same. Not sure what is going on here...

Interestingly it works when backing up a Linux server over rsync...
On a linux machine backup I get:
'pgawk.1.gz' => {
    'uid' => 0,
    'mtime' => 1171288387,
    'mode' => 33188,
    'size' => 25099,
    'sizeDiv4GB' => 0,
    'type' => 1,
    'gid' => 0,
    'sizeMod4GB' => 25099
'gawk.1.gz' => {
    'uid' => 0,
    'mtime' => 1171288387,
    'mode' => 164260,
    'size' => 25099,
    'sizeDiv4GB' => 0,
    'type' => 0,
    'gid' => 0,
    'sizeMod4GB' => 25099
'igawk.1.gz' => {
    'uid' => 0,
    'mtime' => 1171288387,
    'mode' => 33188,
    'size' => 657,
    'sizeDiv4GB' => 0,
    'type' => 0,
    'gid' => 0,
    'sizeMod4GB' => 657
  },

Here we have type=1 appropriately for one of the files and the mtimes
are the same. So with Linux it seems to be working right...

Any idea what might be going on here????

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