Anything specific to keep in mind restoring from rsync ?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 26 12:14:48 UTC 2017


On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:37:29 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Manish Jain wrote:

> > But I am inclined to ask one question here : does FreeBSD actually
> > have any system-installed hard links (other than . and ..) ?  
> 
> Yes:
> 
> % du -hd1 /rescue
> 9.6M	/rescue
> % rsync -a /rescue/ /tmp/rescue/
> % du -hd1 /tmp/rescue
> 1.3G	/tmp/rescue
> 
> There might be others, but those are the ones that always get me.

There are some common binaries where variants of the same program are
implemented as the the same binary. e.g. less/more, csh/tcsh, *grep 


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