Thanks for the detail.
Try
du -s /tmp/full_20110329_122743 /tmp/20110329_122743
du -s /tmp/20110329_122743 /tmp/full_20110329_122743
du -s /tmp/full_20110329_122743
du -s /tmp/20110329_122743
Technically, the directories have entries which point to the inodes which are in
fact the files.
When you delete one of these, either of these, you will not save much space.
-----Original Message-----
From: rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org]
On Behalf Of Janne H
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:01 AM
To: rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: weird result when using --link-dest
Hello.
I create one full backup, then another backup based on that, using --link-dest
to reduce the size of the following backups, but the result is very suprising.
the full backup seems to be reduzed in size!!
I've reduced the commands to the bare minimum that still procduces the str.
ange result.
mkdir -p /tmp/full_20110329_122743
mkdir -p /tmp/20110329_125251
rsync --archive -e "ssh" server:/var/webdir/
/tmp/full_20110329_122743
du -s /tmp/*20110329*
18272 /tmp/full_20110329_122743
12 /tmp/20110329_125251
rsync --archive -e "ssh" --link-dest /tmp/full_20110329_122743
server:/var/webdir /tmp/20110329_125251/
du -s /tmp/*20110329*
18272 /tmp/20110329_125251
532 /tmp/full_20110329_122743
I thought /tmp/full_20110329_122743 would be of size 18272 and not the other
way?
Can someone help me spot the error?
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