A general rsync question

[Robert Goley]

On Thursday 29 November 2007 13:30, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> 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?
Yes, Depending on the options specified.  Look at the man page.  It is also 
good for backing up extended permissions (ACLS).  The -meta options are nice 
for quickly saving and restoring file permissions too.

>
> Bye+thanks,
>
> Tino.