dit(bf(-L, --copy-links)) This tells rsync to treat symbolic links just
like ordinary files.
-dit(bf(--safe-links)) This tells rsync to ignore any symbolic links
-which point outside the destination tree. All absolute symlinks are
-also ignored. Using this option in conjunction with --relative may
-give unexpecetd results.
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dit(bf(-H, --hard-links)) This tells rsync to recreate hard links on
the remote system to be the same as the local system. Without this
option hard links are treated like regular files.