datenritter wrote: > /Apparently/ I am not a native speaker, who tried to summarize something > up in simple words. > > Anyway, a hard link isn't a /file/ either. It is a directory entry, > required to access the file's actual content.
Apparently you do know what a hardlink is :) Please accept my apology for misunderstanding your meaning. The important point is that all the backups are the same in nature; they are all full backups of the state of the source directory at the time the backup was taken (excepting the effects of include/exclude instructions). But they save space because, as you say, the data is only copied once. > By the way: This makes me worry. Dirvish does not automatically create > "original" backups on a regular basis. So if you shred a file or lose it > to a physical disc error, all those additional hardlinks won't help. > > I think you'd have to re-init the vault from time to time or maybe > create a second (and a third...) vault with the same config to double > the files. Or backup the backups, or create filesystem-mirrors, or...? This is true. A dirvish backup vault only provides one copy of each file version. You need to make additional copies somewhere else for security. But at least one backup copy is better than no backup copy! Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
