Am Montag, 10. September 2012 schrieb Fajar A. Nugraha:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Martin Steigerwald
<mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 8. September 2012 schrieb Marc MERLIN:
> >> I was migrating a backup disk to a new btrfs disk, and the backup
> >> had a lot of hardlinks to collapse identical files to cut down on
> >> inode count and disk space.
> >
> >> Then, I started seeing:
> > […]
> >
> >> Has someone come up with a cool way to work around the too many link
> >> error and only when that happens, turn the hardlink into a file copy
> >> instead? (that is when copying an entire tree with millions of
> >> files).
> >
> > What about:
> >
> > - copy first backup version
> > - btrfs subvol create first next
> > - copy next backup version
> > - btrfs subvol create previous next
>
> Wouldn't "btrfs subvolume snapshot", plus "rsync --inplace" more
> useful here? That is. if the original hardlink is caused by multiple
> versions of backup of the same file.
Sure, I meant subvol snapshot in above example. Thanks for noticing.
But I do not use --inplace as it conflicts with some other rsync options I
like to use:
-ax --acls --xattrs --sparse --hard-links --del --delete-excluded --
exclude-from "debian-exclude"
Yes, it was --sparse:
-S, --sparse
Try to handle sparse files efficiently so they take up
less space on the destination. Conflicts with --inplace
because it’s not possible to overwrite data in a sparse
fashion.
As I have some pretty big sparse files, I went without --inplace:
martin@merkaba:~/Amiga> du -sch M-Archiv.hardfile Messages.hardfile
241M M-Archiv.hardfile
726M Messages.hardfile
966M insgesamt
martin@merkaba:~/Amiga> ls -lh M-Archiv.hardfile Messages.hardfile
-rw-r----- 1 martin martin 1,0G Mär 27 2005 M-Archiv.hardfile
-rw-r----- 1 martin martin 1,0G Sep 10 17:33 Messages.hardfile
martin@merkaba:~/Amiga>
(my old mails when I used Amiga as my main machine, still accessible via
e-uae ;)
Anyway, I think that will be solved by btrfs send/receive.
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