A hard link problem

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Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 14Apr2009 10:34, m.roth2006 at rcn.com <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
> | We're backing up using rsync and hard links. The problem is that the
> | fs is filling up *fast*.
> 
> Is this the usual scheme of:
>   - hard link previous backup tree to new backup tree
>   - rsync to new backup tree
> ?
> (I gather you can nearly do that in one rsync step these days.)
> Anyway, is that what you mean?

You can do it in one step with rsync these days. However, there's still too
much. I'm in the process, probably successfully, of convincing my boss to let
me do compressed tar backups of the rsync'd directories, with
beginning-of-month and weekly fulls, and the rest incrementals.


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