On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:20:09PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:33:47AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell > > wrote: > > > This reminds me: is there some fundamental reason backuppc > > > can't use symlinks? It would make so many things like this > > > *so* much easier. It such a great package otherwise; this is > > > the only thing that's given me cause to be annoyed with it. > > > > Still wondering this. > > with hard links, you can tell that a file in the main pool is no > longer needed, by looking at its link count. when the link count > goes to 1, none of the per-PC backup trees is referencing it, so > it can be deleted. (this is what the BackupPC_trashClean process > does.) > > with symlinks, you wouldn't get that reference count, and "garbage > collection" would be much more expensive.
I'd happily pay the price in garbage collection to have something that could be remote mirrored easily. Judging by the number of requests this mailing list has had for such a feature, I'm not the only one. I'd even be willing to put some money forward if someone wants to code this feature; I'd rather not dig into backuppc's code if I can avoid it. Having options to easily allow backuppc to encrypt the pool while it compresses would also be wonderful. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
