Re: [CentOS] use of hard links and diff in rsync

2013-01-12 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-01-12, ken wrote: > On 01/11/2013 07:08 PM Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> different versions of the backup >> daily, weekly, monthly > > Ah, yes, in that kind of scenario hard links would be useful. > >> unchanged files are replaced with hard-links >> the destination files are virtually o

Re: [CentOS] use of hard links and diff in rsync

2013-01-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:46 AM, ken wrote: > On 01/11/2013 07:08 PM Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> different versions of the backup >> daily, weekly, monthly > > Ah, yes, in that kind of scenario hard links would be useful. Backuppc does it by matching the content, so it can pool the duplicate

[CentOS] use of hard links and diff in rsync

2013-01-12 Thread ken
On 01/11/2013 07:08 PM Reindl Harald wrote: > > different versions of the backup > daily, weekly, monthly Ah, yes, in that kind of scenario hard links would be useful. > unchanged files are replaced with hard-links > the destination files are virtually on the same place And so then could c