Just to clarify, Is the destination file system NTFS? Also, is this storage directly attached or is it mounted via the network?
Finally, you mentioned it is mounted read-only would you please clarify why the drive you are writing to is mounted in this way? Thanks. Henri ------------------------------------ This email is protected by LBackup http://www.lbackup.org > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8450 > > Summary: --link-dest seems not to work mounted NTFS file > systems > Product: rsync > Version: 3.0.8 > Platform: x86 > OS/Version: Linux > Status: NEW > Severity: normal > Priority: P5 > Component: core > AssignedTo: way...@samba.org > ReportedBy: toralf.foers...@gmx.de > QAContact: rsync...@samba.org > > > I use rsync to create daily/weekly/monthly backups to an external USB drive of > my Gentoo Linux using this command line options : > > --archive --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/exclude.list > --link-dest=<old dest> --stats --verbose <src> <dest> > > This works like a charm for all files located on my ext3 Linux partition. > However for the 2 files of a NTFS drive not. > > Here rsync always transfers an unchanged file too, even if <old dest> contains > that file (from a backup made yesterday) and therefore it should better be > hard-linked only instead of being transferred twice. > > What is really curious - at the beginning of using this backup solution (some > weeks ago) the <dest> doesn't contain an older version of that file, and there > hard-linking worked IIRC. > > The NTFS drive is mounted read-only: > > tfoerste@n22 ~ $ mount | grep C > /dev/sda1 on /mnt/C type ntfs > (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0027) > > <src> is /mnt/C/notes/data/archive/ > <dest> is /mnt/media/daily/f/ > <old dest> is /mnt/media/weekly/b (given as ../../weekly/b at the command > line) > > Here you can see that different hard links are used : > > tfoerste@n22 ~ $ ls -il /mnt/C/notes/data/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > /mnt/media/daily/f/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > /mnt/media/weekly/b/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > 80719 -r-xr-x--- 1 tfoerste users 8126464 Sep 2 13:40 > /mnt/C/notes/data/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > 2293796 -r-xr-x--- 1 tfoerste users 8126464 Sep 2 13:40 > /mnt/media/daily/f/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > 2310874 -r-xr-x--- 1 tfoerste users 8126464 Sep 2 13:40 > /mnt/media/weekly/b/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > > md5sum proves identical content, the file attributes shouldn't changed too > (NTFS is always mounted read-only, never read-write) : > > tfoerste@n22 ~ $ md5sum /mnt/C/notes/data/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > /mnt/media/daily/f/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > /mnt/media/weekly/b/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > 88ef0d516c5696bf120d749f4b1fc9ba /mnt/C/notes/data/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > 88ef0d516c5696bf120d749f4b1fc9ba /mnt/media/daily/f/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > 88ef0d516c5696bf120d749f4b1fc9ba /mnt/media/weekly/b/archive/l_DE1448.nsf > > OTOH does it make any difference whether the <dest> drive at the external USB > drive is mounted as ext2 instead of ext3 ? > > -- > Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are the QA contact for the bug. > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
