You could do the following: - make a new backup for home - initialize it - move all of your existing stuff into the directory - run the hardlink command: hardlink /backup/system/home (or whatever it is called)
This does mean that for a while you have duplicate files. It might work to just change your config and then do an init and then the hardlink (without the moving...). After my backups finish, I actually run ardlink on each of them (every file system I backup goes to a unique file system on the backup server). Dirvish/rsync is simply comparing the current server to yesterday. If a file keeps alternating between two versions you will have lots of unique copies of it. By running the hardlink command you discover the redundant files and eliminate them. -- Isaac Traxler AIX,Linux Admin Louisiana State University, LONI [email protected] High Performance Computing 225-578-1923 Storage & Infrastructure On Fri, 1 May 2015, Vortex wrote: > Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 10:31:22 > From: Vortex <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Dirvish user and developer mailing list <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Dirvish] Subsequently expanding the tree? > > Greetings, > > how can I change the tree in the default.conf for future backups so that > dirvish still recognizes the existing files for hardlinks? > > Say, I have images for /home/user an now I want to save the whole /home. > > I tried to change the tree in default.conf from /home/user to /home and > moved the contents of the last good image in /bank/vault/tree to > /bank/vault/tree/home to match the new tree path. But dirvish didn't > recognized the data in /home/user to be the same in > /bank/vault/tree/home/user and copied all data anew. > > I don't want to lose the hardlinks for the already backed up data. > > Of course, I could just make another tree for /home *except* /home/user > but I want to keep the whole directory structure as it is in the original. > > I hope I made myself understandable. ;) > > Cheers > > Vortex > > -- > "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as > kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic > pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." > -- Marcus_Brigstocke, english comedian and satirist > > > _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
