Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:27 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
No, rsync will only hardlink to instances of the same file in the same location from previous runs. Backuppc will link every file with
<snip> True. But we have a directory structure like .../servername | -> date-weeks-ago date-weeks-ago-1 ... date-yesterday |-> (symlink) latest and the symlink gets reset after the backup's done.
Have you tried backuppc? There are some tradeoffs because it makes an extra hardlink into a pool directory tree where the name is a hash of the content, but it takes care of all the other stuff for you and would let you store a much longer history, especially if there are duplicate copies of any of the files spread around.
I don't think that's going to happen. First, we have an in-house developed backup system that works just fine. Second, we *are* backup up something over a hundred servers and workstations to a few backup servers. Third, we are talking, in some cases, of terabytes....
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