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I use rsync to backup my system, using a command-line such as the following: > rsync [src] [dst] -a --link-dest --size-only In this case, [src] is produced by a command that makes no attempt to preserve timestamps ("svnadmin hotcopy", in this case). That's why I use --size-only. Here's the rub: identical files aren't hard-linked like I expect them to be. They're full

Hello all, I am down to my last hurdle of my project, backups. I am thinking of three different ways to go and wanted to ask for input on what you think is the better choice. Not asking for 'how to' but more of 'what is best in your experience' The scenario... centos server acting as a virtual host. Virtual machines are webservers and dns servers. All on one machine, all running

Hello group, I'm having a very hard time rsyncing efficiently a MySQL database which contains very large binary blobs. (Actually, it's the database of Mantis bug tracker [http://www.mantisbt.org/], with file attachments stored directly in the table rows. I know it's a bad idea from many other reasons, but let's say it was given to me as such.) First, I was dumping the