The backups can be on separate partitions. What must be on one partition is the file and it's hard link.
On November 16, 2014 6:58:26 PM CST, Joe <jose...@main.nc.us> wrote: >Great idea which I will keep in mind for other cases! > >In this case, however, the backups are on separate partitions on >external USB drives (I have a notebook), so hard links won't work. > >Joe > >On 11/16/2014 07:38 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> On 11/16/2014 03:53:12 PM, Joe wrote: >>> I have a lot of files (and directories) (up to a few hundred at a >>> time) >>> that I get from various sources. Some time after I get them (after >>> they >>> are already backed up), I often have to move them around and >>> normalize >>> their names. >>> >>> When I do this, rsync sees them as unrelated to the copies of these >>> files which are already on the backup destination. >> I don't know if it suits your use case but >> you could consider using hardlinks. >> >> If, instead of moving the files, you hardlinked them >> then rsync with -H would see the files as being the same. >> >> (Hardlinking can only be done within a filesystem.) >> >> Then you'd have to delete the original filenames and >> rsync again. >> >> This is only practicable if it's easy to delete >> the old filenames, say, if all the new files >> arrive in a single directory that can later >> be deleted. >> >> >> >> Karl <k...@meme.com> >> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." >> -- Robert A. Heinlein Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- 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