-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have an image of a disk that contains backups done with rsync, done originally this way: +++............. PREVIO=/run/media/linux/Erebor_2/Portatil_entero_6 DESTINO=/run/media/linux/Erebor_2/Portatil_entero_7 OPTIONS="--archive --acls --xattrs --hard-links --sparse --stats --human-readable --checksum" rsync $OPTIONS --link-dest=$PREVIO/rsync_root /run/media/linux/Root/ $DESTINO/rsync_root .............++- It worked. Example: +++............. localhost:/data/Datum/mountpoint # l Portatil_entero_?/rsync_Home/cer/spamassassin.zip - -rw-r--r-- 2 cer users 7592643 Jun 10 2016 Portatil_entero_6/rsync_Home/cer/spamassassin.zip - -rw-r--r-- 2 cer users 7592643 Jun 10 2016 Portatil_entero_7/rsync_Home/cer/spamassassin.zip localhost:/data/Datum/mountpoint # .............++- ^ It is the same file, and the "2" is indicative of being hardlinks, I believe. But when I copy all that to another disk using rsync and telling I want to keep hardlinks, they are not. +++............. OPTIONS="--archive --acls --xattrs --hard-links --sparse --partial-dir=.rsync-partial --stats --human-readable" time rsync $OPTIONS root@telcontar.valinor://data/Datum/mountpoint/Portatil_entero_7/ /data/Portatil_entero_7 time rsync $OPTIONS root@telcontar.valinor://data/Datum/mountpoint/Portatil_entero_6/ /data/Portatil_entero_6 .............++- I get: +++............. Erebor:/data # l Portatil_entero_?/rsync_Home/cer/spamassassin.zip - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 7592643 Jun 10 2016 Portatil_entero_6/rsync_Home/cer/spamassassin.zip - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 7592643 Jun 10 2016 Portatil_entero_7/rsync_Home/cer/spamassassin.zip Erebor:/data # .............++- The "1" indicate they are real files both, not hardlinks one to the other. Why, what did I do wrong? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCX4a7VRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVTWsAnRbdmPZ8jEr1j6zkUiiS J4Irk+/aAJwM8EkB3jZb+NZTBn9wwpYuRiDzeQ== =c4vI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org