Moving hardlinks

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    I have a backup drive that I'm trying to replace with a larger one 
and I need to transfer what's on it now to the new drive.  The data was 
backed up using RSYNC, and some of the data's hardlinked (through cp 
-al) and I'd like to preserve all of that.  Do I simply run 'cp -aR 
<source> <dest>' and hope for the best?  I mean, will the hardlinks 
transfer over, and will the timestamps will be the same?

    The current structure is:

    daily.05
    daily.04
    daily.03
    daily.02  <-- this is a 'cp -al' version of daily.01
    daily.01  <-- data gets RSYNCed in here

    And every night that structure gets pushed up (.05 deleted, .02 to 
.04 shifted up, .02 gets created by cp -al .01, and then rsync runs on .01)

    I need this structure, and the linking, to stay as is when I 
transfer the data from one drive to the other.

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