Matthias--- via BackupPC-users wrote at about 09:19:22 +0100 on Monday, November 11, 2024: > Dear all, > > As far as I understand BackupPC 4.x don't use hardlinks anymore. Instead > files are stored only in > [c]pool. Yes > In pc/<host>/<backupnumber> in each directory, backuped from the host, is > only one, zero lenght, > attrib file and its name includes one MD5 digest. > > Because it is only one MD5 digest, how can backuppc identify all the files > which are part of this > directories?
It's NOT zero length. The attrib file as in v3.x contains all the metadata needed to restore each of the files in the directory PLUS for each file in the directory, the md5sum of that file (+/- a trailing index required in the exceedingly rare case of an md5sum collision) > > Thanks a lot > Matthias > > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
