Hi,

I notice that the default BackupPC config uses --recursive with rsync. 
According to rsync's manpage, this may cause it to miss hardlinks:

"If  incremental recursion is active (see --recursive), rsync may 
transfer a missing hard-linked file before it finds that another link 
for that contents exists elsewhere in the  hierarchy.   This  does 
not  affect  the accuracy of the transfer, just its efficiency.  One way 
to avoid this is to disable incremental recursion using the 
--no-inc-recursive option."

Is it safe to replace --recursive with --no-inc-recursive in the 
BackupPC config?

Also, I'm wondering if direct restore to the client isn't possible with 
rsync?  The introduction of the manual says "(with smb or tar)" which 
makes me wonder.

Thanks,

-- John

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