Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Marco Jackel > # on Thursday 21 June 2007 01:43 am: > >> what happen if I move or rename files or folders in a directory that >> gets backuped every night. Are those "new" files/folders hardlinked to >> the existing ones in the backup, too? > > No. The backup linkage is by-name only.
I'm not sure that's the whole story. dirvish does preserve hardlinks within backups, and of course it makes hardlinks between backups. So if you have a file, make a hard link to it and then delete the original link (a.k.a. file), I think dirvish would link to the same object in the backup. So I think there's a fair chance that a rename/move in the same filesystem will hardlink. Depends on the filesystem type as well as other variables. OTOH, there's at least one situation where I expected Dirvish to preserve hardlinks where it didn't. (actually it was rsync rather than dirvish that didn't behave as I expected). I now use rdiff-backup for that specific case, because it uses librsync rather than rsync. Sorry, I don't have time to check the specifics in this case. You'll need to do your own experiments, Marco, but it's worth a try. Let us know what happens. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
