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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 copies. And the reason is that the timestamps are different (I've tested that in various ways, and am able to produce correctly hardlink...

...Many backup solutions and programs seem centered on a network of computers with file sharing. I do not have this and don't think I want to go that way on my host. My three thoughts, not sure which one to pursue... (involves certain folders, /home/ (which includes maildir), /var/www/, /mysqlhotcopys and bin files, and maybe a few more. I can rebuild the comp pretty quick and then restore, or maybe just do one big backup of each server, then work on the folders as a solution) 1- Amanda. I do not know much about it or how it would deal with mysql databases, but it look promising. I do not h...

...me 34G of disk space. My rsync took no less than two hours then, regardless of number of actual changes in the database. (Later I realized that my dump was perhaps not enough line-oriented, so I tried some --skip-extended-insert options of mysqldump, with no luck.) Currently I'm using mysqlhotcopy to rsync raw database data. It still takes no less than one hour (which is 50% of the previous results, mostly because the raw data of the database is just 17G. The single biggest file is 16909M). How to do it better? I thought that rsync would be magically able to extract changes from my data...