[Digikam-devel] [Bug 202094] Make use of symlinks

[Russell Harrison]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202094


Russell Harrison <rharrison at fedoraproject.org> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Russell Harrison <rharrison fedoraproject org>  2010-08-26 21:05:28 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> I actually avoid using of hardlinks in my archive. The problem here is
> especially with backing-up. On original file system where you created hardlink,
> it's ok - it's two files entries and one data. Thought once you copy or rsync
> your archive to backup storage - it will create two separate files and twice
> more data. And that you definitely don't want.

rsync and many other backup utilities can handle hardlinks properly.  You just
have to pass it the -H or --hard-links switch to tell it to look for and
preserve hardlinks on both sides.

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