A general rsync question

[Tino Schwarze]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:14:34PM -0500, Kuba Ober wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 November 2007, John Bown wrote:
> > Good afternoon everyone.  I have a PowerEdge 1600SC running SLES9 SP3.
> > Do any of you know if it's possible to rsync said box directly to an
> > external USB2 hard drive?  Many thanks.
> 
> Also, if you look for an alternative to rsync, I'd suggest star (pipe one
> instance into the other). Works very well too, and doesn't really care
> what filesystem you're on, as long as the filesystem supports some minimum of 
> functionality (fat won't cut it, ntfs may not either).
> 
> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/new/private/star.html

BTW: does star preserve hardlinks?

Bye+thanks,

Tino.

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