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

2020-12-11 Thread Chris Green via rsync
Guillaume Outters via rsync wrote: > On 2020-12-11 12:53, Chris Green wrote : > > > […] wrote a trivial[ish] script that copied > > all the backups to a new destination sequentially (using --link-dest) > > and then removed the original tree, having checked the new backups > > were OK of course.

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

2020-12-11 Thread Guillaume Outters via rsync
On 2020-12-11 12:53, Chris Green wrote : […] wrote a trivial[ish] script that copied all the backups to a new destination sequentially (using --link-dest) and then removed the original tree, having checked the new backups were OK of course. With the same cause as yours, I once worked out

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

2020-12-11 Thread Chris Green via rsync
Paul Slootman via rsync wrote: > On Thu 10 Dec 2020, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > > > 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

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

2020-12-11 Thread Paul Slootman via rsync
On Thu 10 Dec 2020, Chris Green via rsync wrote: > > 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 there any easy way that one