I've been using snapback2, a fine Perl utility for performing remote backups using ssh and rsync. However, it relies on gnu "cp" - specifically the "cp -al" flags (archive and create hard links)

Unfortunately, my backup Mac OS X server doesn't recognize these flags. The way I got snapback2 working was to ignore the "make test" failures, continue with the snapback2 install, and then installed the gnu cp - you can specify alternate cp, mv and rm commands in the config file once snapback2 is installed.

It seems to me that a better solution would be to do the "cp -al" in native Perl, but I'm not sure if the hard-linking part is possible. Can it be done?

In reply to Hard linking with Perl by astroboy

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