i wrote: > many thanks, craig. somehow i overlooked this response until > today, and in my earlier testing, i hadn't added '--hard-links'. > i hadn't yet had time to debug my lack hard links, so i'm glad i > found your reply.
hmmm. it seems i may have created a problem for myself. i've been doing backups with tar, for forever. i have files in the pool that are marked as hardlink, and which restore as such (using tar, at least -- haven't tried rsync, and i'm not too concerned about that.) a few days ago i tried switching that host to use rsync, but i neglected to add the "--hard-links" argument. i did a single full backup. the same files in the pool (which were hard-links in tar backups) were now just regular unlinked files. today, having found craig's message, i added "--hard-links" to RsyncArgs, and did another full, thinking it would fix it. but the same files are still just files, and not hard-links. the full backup command was: Running: /usr/bin/ssh -x -l root stump /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --one-file-system --hard-links --links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . / another test, using a different, newly converted (i.e. from tar to rsync) host, tells me that a fresh full backup using the correct --hard-lins argument works fine, and hard-links are preserved correctly. so -- is there anything i can do to "fix" a host where there are files in the wrong "link" state, presumably as a result of running an rsync backup without '--hard-links'? paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 37.4 degrees) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
