On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:53 PM, gregwm <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm archiving the BackupPC backup folder (/var/lib/BackupPC) folder to >> external disk with rsync. >> >> However, it looks like rsync is filling the links? >> >> My total disk usage on the backup server is 407g, and the space used on >> the external drive is up to 726g. >> >> (using rsync -avh --delete --quiet /var/lib/BackupPC /usbmount/backuppc) > > you want rsync -H > i've used rsync -qPHSa with some success. however, if you have lots of > links, and not terribly much memory, rsync gobbles memory in proportion to > how many hardlinks it's trying to match up. so, ironically, i use > storebackup to make an offsite copy of my backuppc volume.
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