Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:27 AM, <m.roth at 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.... mark