On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 08:12:55AM -0400, Chris Ruprecht wrote: > restore the previously backed up data so everything is back where it > used to be, same permissions, same ownership, same links and symlinks. > I tried a few things in the past and I usually got 2 or more copies of > files that had 2 or more hard hard links to them. I hope this has been > addressed in the past decade ;). Leaving the aside the whole issue of exactly where you'll put your data in the meantime, you could use rsync with -aHS to preserve ownership, permissions, links (both symlinks and real hard links), and sparse files. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
