rsync -a is not the same as cp -R

Posted Nov 8, 2020 0:03 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: rsync -a is not the same as cp -R by Sesse
Parent article: Deprecating scp

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