Re: [BackupPC-users] link counting fixed in 3.0.0? [Was: Subversion working copies cause too many links]

2007-03-31 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Paul Fox wrote: Gregor Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there anything special to consider when upgrading from 2.1 to 3.0? I found very little on the net and in the docs, I guess that implies that configure.pl is working just fine. it works very well. for those of us not fluent in perl,

Re: [BackupPC-users] link counting fixed in 3.0.0? [Was: Subversion working copies cause too many links]

2007-03-31 Thread Paul Fox
Gregor Schmid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anything special to consider when upgrading from 2.1 to 3.0? > I found very little on the net and in the docs, I guess that implies > that configure.pl is working just fine. it works very well. for those of us not fluent in perl, the hardest

Re: [BackupPC-users] link counting fixed in 3.0.0? [Was: Subversion working copies cause too many links]

2007-03-31 Thread Gregor Schmid
Thanks a lot Craig, then I guess it's time to upgrade... :-) Is there anything special to consider when upgrading from 2.1 to 3.0? I found very little on the net and in the docs, I guess that implies that configure.pl is working just fine. I'll give it a try. Thanks and best regards, Greg

Re: [BackupPC-users] link counting fixed in 3.0.0? [Was: Subversion working copies cause too many links]

2007-03-30 Thread Craig Barratt
Gregor writes: > and related messages for background information. In his final mail on > that thread, Craig said > > > Upon further inspection, it turns out the rsync XferMethod > > doesn't check the hardlink limit when it is linking to > > an identical file. So there are two cases you have foun

Re: [BackupPC-users] link counting fixed in 3.0.0? [Was: Subversion working copies cause too many links]

2007-03-30 Thread Les Mikesell
Gregor Schmid wrote: > The "solution" of excluding .svn directories from backups, as > mentioned in the previous discussion, is not acceptable for me as SVN > working copies are among the most valuable stuff we're backing up... If your work is committed (which is kind of the point of using svn...

[BackupPC-users] link counting fixed in 3.0.0? [Was: Subversion working copies cause too many links]

2007-03-30 Thread Gregor Schmid
Hi, I'm using BackupPC 2.1.3 and am mostly very happy with it. But now I'm running into the "too many links" problem with large subversion directories. Please see http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2005-03/msg00145.html and related messages for background in