Re: Is there any way to restore/create hardlinks lost in incremental backups?

2020-12-10 Thread Dan Stromberg via rsync
Hi. Is it possible that, if day4 is consuming too much space, that day3 was an incomplete backup? The rsync wrapper I wrote goes to a little trouble to make sure that incomplete backups aren't allowed. It's called Backup.rsync, and can be found at:

Is there any way to restore/create hardlinks lost in incremental backups?

2020-12-10 Thread Chris Green via rsync
I run a simple self written incremental backup system using rsync's --link-dest option. Occasionally, because I've moved things around or because I've done something else that breaks things, the hard links aren't created as they should be and I get a very space consuming backup increment. Is