[CentOS] Rsync and differential Backups
Gordon Messmer
gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 19:36:18 UTC 2015
On 11/09/2015 11:10 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
>> >And if you aren't familiar with hard links, which rsync happily creates,
>> >they were certainly hard enough to wrap my head around, until I got it...
> More than one filename for a particular file. What's difficult about that?
I think the difficult part is that so many people don't understand that
EVERY regular file is a hard link. It doesn't mean "more than one" at
all. A hard link is the association between a directory entry
(filename) and an inode in the filesystem.
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