To link-dest or not

What do you suggest, using link-dest with rsync or the plain old "cp -al"?

I'm seeing "cp -al" taking hours (with high load on backup server) for
some hosts.
The same with rsync link-dest doesn't happens but obviously the rsync
phase is longer.

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I would never do without syndest and syncfirst, unless you have a very
broke rsync that won't do hardlinks.

Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta < at > gmail.com> wrote:

[quote]What do you suggest, using link-dest with rsync or the plain old "cp -al"?

I'm seeing "cp -al" taking hours (with high load on backup server) for
some hosts.
The same with rsync link-dest doesn't happens but obviously the rsync
phase is longer.

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2016-06-09 11:56 GMT+02:00 <covici < at > ccs.covici.com>:
[quote]I would never do without syndest and syncfirst, unless you have a very
broke rsync that won't do hardlinks.
[/quote]
So are you suggesting to use the "link-dest" and skip the "cp -al" ?

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Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta < at > gmail.com> wrote:

[quote]2016-06-09 11:56 GMT+02:00 <covici < at > ccs.covici.com>:
[quote]I would never do without syndest and syncfirst, unless you have a very
broke rsync that won't do hardlinks.
[/quote]
So are you suggesting to use the "link-dest" and skip the "cp -al" ?

[/quote]
Absolutely.

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2016-06-09 13:50 GMT+02:00 <covici < at > ccs.covici.com>:
[quote]Absolutely.
[/quote]
Can you explain me why ? There are different opinions about this

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[quote]> 2016-06-09 11:56 GMT+02:00  <covici < at > ccs.covici.com ([email]covici < at > ccs.covici.com[/email])>:
[quote][quote]I would never do without syndest and syncfirst, unless you have a very
broke rsync that won&#39;t do hardlinks.
[/quote]
So are you suggesting to use the "link-dest" and skip the "cp -al" ?

[/quote]
Absolutely.[/quote]

I&#39;m not really sure exactly what&#39;s being suggested here.  Are you recommending to set link_dest to 1 and sync_first to 1 in rsnapshot.conf?

Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta < at > gmail.com> wrote:

[quote]2016-06-09 13:50 GMT+02:00 <covici < at > ccs.covici.com>:
[quote]Absolutely.
[/quote]
Can you explain me why ? There are different opinions about this

[/quote]
I think its probably much faster to use rsync, and it has worked well
for me -- I think I only tried the cp -l briefly.

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Phill Edwards <philledwards < at > gmail.com> wrote:

[quote][quote]
[quote]2016-06-09 11:56 GMT+02:00 <covici < at > ccs.covici.com>:
[quote]I would never do without syndest and syncfirst, unless you have a very
broke rsync that won't do hardlinks.
[/quote]
So are you suggesting to use the "link-dest" and skip the "cp -al" ?

[/quote]
Absolutely.
[/quote]

I'm not really sure exactly what's being suggested here. Are you
recommending to set link_dest to 1 and sync_first to 1 in rsnapshot.conf?
[/quote]
Yes, that is what I suggest.

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2016-06-09 15:22 GMT+02:00 <covici < at > ccs.covici.com>:
[quote]I think its probably much faster to use rsync, and it has worked well
for me -- I think I only tried the cp -l briefly.
[/quote]
Could you please share the rsnapshot log ? i would like to double check
the exact steps that rsnapshot does with link-dest, mine seems a bit strange.

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