Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 05/05/18 07:45, Martin McCormick wrote: > I just realized that I goofed when I wrote the name of > the application that combines multiple drives in to one large > drive. I meant > mhddfs for example: > mhddfs /rsnapshot1,/rsnapshot2 /var/cache/rsnapshot -o mlimit=100M >

Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-04 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 04-05-2018 16:52, Martin McCormick wrote: > The backup file system resides on a pair of 256 GB usb > drives which are ganged together in to 1 large drive using mmddfs You can't have a hard link between files in different drives[0]. mmddfs is probably copying instead of linking, even if it

Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
I am replying to two messages at once. Andrew McGlashan writes: > Is it this: > > https://www.microchip.com/SWLibraryWeb/product.aspx?product=Memory%20Disk%20Drive%20File%20System > > I just realized that I goofed when I wrote the name of

Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 05/05/18 05:52, Martin McCormick wrote: > Andrew McGlashan writes: >> Have you got your backup areas on different file systems? > > I do. The backup file system resides on a pair of 256 GB usb > drives which are ganged together in to 1 large drive

Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 02:52:05PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > As I write this, I am beginning to realize that maybe only > hard links in the same directory structure will reference the > same inode and that hard links spanning multiple directory trees > can be different but contain

Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
Andrew McGlashan writes: > Hi, > > Have you got your backup areas on different file systems? I do. The backup file system resides on a pair of 256 GB usb drives which are ganged together in to 1 large drive using mmddfs and then mounted on

Re: Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 05/05/18 03:40, Martin McCormick wrote: > rsnapshot hard-links files that haven't changed to save space. I > am doing two half-day backups and a daily each day. Shouldn't > the inode number as in ls -i filename stay the same for all the > backups? There is a daily.0 file plus a

Question about Running rsnapshot

2018-05-04 Thread Martin McCormick
rsnapshot hard-links files that haven't changed to save space. I am doing two half-day backups and a daily each day. Shouldn't the inode number as in ls -i filename stay the same for all the backups? There is a daily.0 file plus a halfday.0 and a halfday.1 backup and all 3 have different inode