Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 03/27/2015 03:27 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:46:20PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>>> On 3/27/2015 12:36 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>>>> On 3/27/2015 12:30 PM, Mark Haney wrote:
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>>> oh. is /7/ supposed to be a symlink to /7.0.1406/ or a separate
>>> directory ? it appears my mirroring of the mirror may be broken if
>>> its supposed to be a symlink.
>>>
>>> in /7.0.1406/, I'm seeing files up to Feb 22.
>>
>> /7/ is a link to the latest release, which at this point in timeis
>> 7.0.1406.Once 7.1 is released, the 7 symlink will point to it.
>
> It is indeed a symlink ... and it will indeed be shifted.
>
> People also really should use rsync with the -H option for hardlinks as
> that will save much space between releases as well. (Almost all the
> items in the 'cr' repo, 'os' repo, and 'fasttrack' repo from the
> 7.0.1406 tree will make up the new os repo in the newer 7.1.1503 tree.)
>
> If you are not using -H, you have to download each RPM more than once.
Absolutely, what Johnny said. We *always* use hard links for our backups,
which is the only way we could (most of the time) keep 5 weeks of b/u of
our home and project directories.
mark