On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:44:38AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> > In practice, rsync -H is the reasonable way to do what you're
> > after, EXCEPT that there are just too many hard links on a
> > backuppc data store for this to work. 
> 
> And there is a solution to this problem: BackupPC_tarPCCopy.

To be clear: there's nothing wrong with rsync -H for *most* data,
it's just a very very bad choice for BackupPC data and the way it is
interlinked.  Again, see my other post in this thread for details of
how this works and why BackupPC_tarPCCopy is better.

-Robin

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