Hi, I'm having some strange issues when using cp in my rsync script. It seems there may be links breaking or something. Before running the actual rsync I run the following command in my script: cp -al /backup/Current /backup/$prevday Then I rsync from the source to /Current So shouldn't all my previous days have hard links back to the original /backup directory? Sometimes the /backup directory will end up holding only around 200mb of data, and one of the date directories will end up holding the bulk of the 37GB, should this happen? Shouldn't /Current always have the actual copy (37Gb)? Here is the results of du from the last two days. The first day it seems normal because there was about 1.4Gb of changes, but on the second day 4-8-2004 now has changed to 9.1Gb and Current is only 29Gb?? Strange. Does this mean that 4-8-2004 is no longer properly hard-linked to /Current? Would there be any difference using --link-destination in rsync and not using cp at all? [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# du --max-depth=1 -h 37G ./Current 1.4G ./04-08-2004 26M ./04-09-2004 38G .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# du --max-depth=1 -h 29G ./Current 9.1G ./04-08-2004 211M ./04-09-2004 26M ./04-10-2004 39G . -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
