> The solution is not to refuse to backup any file that is a hard link. > There are legitimate reasons to have hard links and ignoring them > means you aren't backing up everything.
I agree that preserving hard links may be important in some situation. There are certainly legitimate reasons to preserve hard links within a backup. To more than a couple of years I have been weighing up the advantages and disadvantages relating to including a hard link preservation support within LBackup. The latest alpha build of LBackup now includes support for hard link preservation. -------------------------------------------------------------------- This email is protected by LBackup, an open source backup solution http://www.lbackup.org -- 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
