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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com