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rsync -a is not the same as cp -R

rsync -a is not the same as cp -R

Posted Nov 7, 2020 23:22 UTC (Sat) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
In reply to: rsync -a is not the same as cp -R by Wol
Parent article: Deprecating scp

FWIW, links in UNIX are either hard (hardlinks) or symbolic (symlinks). There's no such thing as “hard symlinks”.

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rsync -a is not the same as cp -R

Posted Nov 8, 2020 0:03 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Whoops :-)

I meant, of course, hard links.

Oh - and if you don't need to preserve hard links (which I do), it's not a good idea to try. I think my rsync or cp crawled, I had so many it needed to keep track of ...

Cheers,
Wol


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