Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Graeme Humphries wrote: > >>Guy Dallaire wrote: >> >>>Yes, thanks. I know about hard links. But how would it impact the size >>>or performance of my backups ? >>> >> >>Well, if a file is hard linked multiple times, it'll be backed up multiple >>times. Therefor, a filesystem with tons of hard links will take a really long >>time to back up. :) > > > Fortunately tar is sufficiently smart to back it up only once. > > Usually the problem with lots of hard links is not the data timeout value, but > the estimate timeout value, as I found out the hard way[*].
We've been having similar problems with estimates timeing out. I just ran the 'find' command given in an earlier email and found a grand total of 607 hard links on the entire filesystem. What I'm wondering is, does 607 count as 'lots' WRT amanda estimate timeouts?
