On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 06:44, Holger Parplies<[email protected]> wrote: >> yes, but however you fix it, you should be aware that you won't get pooling >> for already completed backups. Until they expire, they will contain >> independent copies of files. What's worse, rsync backups will hardlink 'same' >> files to the reference backup file (which will be outside the pool as long as >> it remains unchanged). > > Can you use a script such as hardlink.py to create hardlinks out of > identical files in the BackupPC repository? Would that fix that issue > without the need to start over? > > http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/
This only will work for files with identical copies already in the pool. I don't have experience with hardlinkpy, but fslint http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint does the same (and more). Cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ 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/
