Am 09.03.2010 13:26 schrieb Cord Walter: > Am 09.03.2010 13:03, schrieb Ali Jawad: >> Hm..I got slightly confused here...let's suppose I keep a 7 day backup >> history and 1 monthly backup. >> >> The 7 day backups are full backups and the monthly backup is a full >> backup ? Or are they differential / incremental ? > > If I've understood dirvish correctly, the monthly backup is the full > backup and the 7-day-backups are differential backups - but with added > hardlinks [1] to the files in the full (monthly) backup, so that they > look like a full backup if you go into the directory of the daily backup.
AFAI understood, dirvish "links" a backup with the last one. Only the first bacup is a "full" backup, all others contain hardlinks. The hardlinks prevent files from beeing removed when older backups are deleted. n. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
