[K12OSN] K12LTSP Mirror (again)

[Shawn Powers]

Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> The "hardlink" utility does wonders for disk space:
> 
> 	hardlink -v ./dir1 ./dir2 ./dir3
> 
> will walk through the directories ./dir1, ./dir2, ./dir3 and create 
> hardlinks for any duplicated files.

Wonderful...  BUT, does this mean I rsync the whole bugger once (both repositories, apt and i386), and then use "hardlink" to save the space afterwards?  Never used the hardlink util, but I use hardlinking in my rsync backup technique -- it does work perfectly.

Thanks a bunch,
-Shawn

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