please ignore this entire post. egregious user error was involved. my apologies.
summary: adding --hard-links to the commandline for a previously backed-up system works fine -- files that used to be just files become hard-links, as they should. sorry for the noise. (i still think "--hard-links" should be mentioned in the config file comments somewhere, or perhaps should even become the default.) paul i wrote: > 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) =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 44.6 degrees) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ 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/
