Les Mikesell writes:

> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 20:41, Craig Barratt wrote:
> 
> > The next version of BackupPC and File::RsyncP will support
> > hardlinks.  But there isn't a firm release date yet.
> 
> If you want to work at it, it is possible to get incrementals
> right with gnutar.  However it requires keeping track of
> a file name to use with the --listed-incremental option
> and having write access somewhere on the client.  Since
> rsync works anyway I'm not sure it's worth the effort.

That's right.  Getting rsync hardlinks tested and released is
more important.  Plus, with Roy's development of a BackupPC
client (which will handle ACLs and a bunch of other things),
tar is lower priority.

Craig


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