Oh yeah, daily.01 gets linked to daily.02 by running a 'cp -al' on them. Then Rsync runs on daily.01.How sure are you? Rsync on its own doesn't do that - you need to have a separate pass that makes a link tree and then rsync that. Is that your setup?
Surely you meant du, not df. :) Hmm okay, maybe I'm not patient enough to sit and watch the very lengthy output of -k... I realize what I really wanted was 'du -k --max-depth=1 .' This will list all those daily's without their contents scrolling off my screen.A "df -k ." on your backup directory after each backup run will tell you if you're copying everything fresh or making linked trees with few differences.
I just did a dry run on one of the smaller backups and it appears to be doing what you said it should be. So I think all is well. I think I also found the problem that lead me to believe it wasn't doing what it should've been doing. The backup I was checking had a large (2.7 GB) file in it that was being backed up every single day because it's a log file. Consequently, the daily differences were rather small. Now that I've removed it, it appears to be working properly.My suspiscion is that unless you've neglected to mention some part of your backup arrangements you're getting complete copies, not "incremental" trees.
Thanks Cameron!
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