On 18.12.15 22:45, Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:06:10 PM Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote:
I'm not grokking the benefit of doing the rsync _and_ a "cp -al". I just include -aH in my rsync options, the -H to preserve hard links. Seems to work.
The idea is to have snapshots over time, rather than a single snapshot. For instance as implemented in:
Thanks Chris, that was not in doubt. What I didn't realise was that the links appear to be between unchanged files across backup versions, to save space. (Whereas my local concern has only been to ensure that the backup is not distorted by failure to preserve the fs structure.) It's around 8 years since I used an HP tape carousel for daily + weekly backups at work. Not doing that any more, so have devolved to just a couple of rotating snapshots, with no need to link between them to save space. Erik