Avoid carrying permissions and other attributes.
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Backuping and restoring
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rsync
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Use FS with hardlink with ``cp -l``::
$ cp -al /backup/old /backup/new
$ rsync -a --delete --progress /data/ /backup/new/
Use FS hardlink exclusively with ``rsync``::
$ rsync -a --delete --progress --link-dest=../previous /data/ /backup/new/
.. note:: ``--link-dest`` accepts a relative path, it is relative to the
destination directory.
.. note:: Cygwin ``rsync`` implementation can use NTFS hard links with
``--link-dest`` option. Check it with::
cmd> fsutil hardlink list c:\backup\new\file.txt
Avoid carrying permissions and other attributes with::
--no-p --no-o --no-g --no-A --no-X -O -J
To show current progress::
-v --progress
To copy over ssh::
rsync -n -e 'ssh -l $RUSER' -r /archive/ $RHOST:/archive/