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trevi
2003 Apr 26
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when does --link-dest create a link?
...trying to get a rotating daily backup going with previous days kept
as hard links to save on network transfer and disk space. The plan: on
day N, rsync to blah/N/, using --link-dest=../<N-1> (modulo 7 or
whatever).
My test command is:
rsync -a --delete --link-dest=../1 ~/
siepie::gigs/teevie-jcw.backups/2/
When 1/ has data and 2/ is empty, the above command will properly
create a backup, using the local data from 1/ (yeay!), but the files
are not hard linked, even though they are identical (uid, mode, and
all).
I'm running 2.5.6 on both systems (two different Linux distro'...