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2014 Dec 27
1
Re[2]: --link-dest --inplace updates files without unlinking. What to do?
>I mean instead of having --link-dest=previous_backup and the target
>being empty (or starting that way in your case) you cp -al the
>prevous_backup to the new "incomplete" one. Now you have a tree full
>of all hard links. Now you can rsync to the target without any
>- --link-dest reference.
I meant the same.
>You are right...
2014 Dec 27
2
Re[2]: --link-dest --inplace updates files without unlinking. What to do?
>BTW, if you want it to always have that behavior (it can save a lot of
>backup space) you can use the old cp -al method instead of --link-dest
>so that the target dir starts out completely populated.
You mean making "cp -al" on the remote and then start rsync to newly created dir with --partial and without --link-dest, --inplace, --append-verify?
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2014 Dec 27
0
--link-dest --inplace updates files without unlinking. What to do?
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I mean instead of having --link-dest=previous_backup and the target
being empty (or starting that way in your case) you cp -al the
prevous_backup to the new "incomplete" one. Now you have a tree full
of all hard links. Now you can rsync to the target without any
- --link-dest reference. You are right about the other options except
that y...