Did you use a disk deduplicator on the drive? Is there a directory with alot of files in it? How many files are you backing up?
If you have MANY hardlinks on a file system, rsync with the --hard-links option has a tendency to croak, leaving tar as the best option. Dirvish has this same issue. To answer your question, find a directory or a couple of them that have a lot of files. run "ls -l" or "ls -lR" (the latter is recursive) in that directory. Look at the output. sample: -rw-r--r-- 79 shawn users 37888 2005-12-04 14:36 X-mas list.xls The first field after the permissions us the number of links to the data in that file, 79 in this case. That means there are 79 hard links to that file. There will always be at least one. Shawn On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Nick Bright <nick.bri...@valnet.net> wrote: >>Shawn Perry wrote: >> Does this host have alot of hard links? >> > > That's a good question that I have no idea how to answer. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/