In article <20070222152148.GE5685@run.galis.org>,
George Georgalis <george@galis.org> wrote:
>I have 89 hardlink based snapshots, consisting of a date named
>prefix directory and some 500,000 files below each prefix. no
>prefix is over 36GB, but through the use of hardlinks, all the
>snapshots combined use no more than about 38Gb.
>
>Presently they are on a linux reiserfs, and I'm trying to get them
>over to a NetBSD 3.1 UFS2 partition. rsync with -H, fails with
>not enough memory, the system has 6Gb RAM. I don't see a preserve
>hardlinks option with tar.
>
>is there another program that can manage the transfer?

I think that tar preserves hard links. Another option is rdist6, but
it will probably crap out too.

christos