Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:56:01 +0100 From: Thomas Ronner <thomas@ronner.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files? Message-ID: <4CEBB9E1.6040403@ronner.org> In-Reply-To: <20101123124543.GA4751@johnny.reilly.home> References: <20101122113541.GA74719@johnny.reilly.home> <4CEA8BA6.7080009@kc8onw.net> <20101123124543.GA4751@johnny.reilly.home>
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On 11/23/10 1:45 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote: > No, I don't like tar, rsync and friends for backups: they don't > deal well with hard links, special files or sparse files. > rsync -avHxS --delete --numeric-ids /src/. /dst/. Handles sparse files (S) and hard links (H). Never had any trouble with special files. What sort of special files are not handled correctly by rsync? I'd like to know because I'm relying on rsync for backups for years on my home network. Thomas
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