Please add a "--hard-links" option

[Lupe Christoph]

Binary package hint: rsyncrypto

I use rsnapshot for backups, which creates hardlinks for files that did not change between snapshots. I would like to store these snapshots on an offsite server and encrypt them with rsyncrypto. But because rsyncrypto treats each link to the file as a separate file, the backup size explodes.

Wrapping some code around rsyncrypto that feeds only one copy of the file to it and reconstructs the hard links is quite painfull ;-)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: rsyncrypto 1.12-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 21 10:39:40 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rsyncrypto

[Shachar Shemesh (shachar-shemesh)]

Transferred to rsyncrypto upstream bug tracker: https://sourceforge.net/p/rsyncrypto/bugs/18/