This may be way to complicated, but couldn't you create a loopback filesystem that supports hardlinks in a file on amazon? I know you can do encrypted loopback fs. You could even do a journaling fs with the journal stored on a local device to help with the performance.
--Tod On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:06 PM, gregwm <[email protected]> wrote: >> to copy my backuppc volume offsite i wrote a script to pick >> (from <backupvolume>/pc/*/backups) the 2 most recent incremental and the >> 2 most recent full backups from each backup set and rsync all that to the >> remote site. i'm ignoring (c)pool but the hardlinks still apply amongst the >> selected backups. you could do something similar to feed tar. > > fwiw my main motivation for this was due to rsync's consumption of memory > related to the number of hardlinks it needs to process. rsync was thrashing > forever until i trimmed down to only recent backups, thereby vastly reducing > the amount of ram/swap rsync required to grapple with all those hardlinks. > more recently, ironically, i've been using "storebackup" to transfer my > backuppc data, as apparently storebackup is far more efficient with > hardlinks than rsync. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Achieve Improved Network Security with IP and DNS Reputation. > Defend against bad network traffic, including botnets, malware, > phishing sites, and compromised hosts - saving your company time, > money, and embarrassment. Learn More! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpdev2dev-nov > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve Improved Network Security with IP and DNS Reputation. Defend against bad network traffic, including botnets, malware, phishing sites, and compromised hosts - saving your company time, money, and embarrassment. Learn More! http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpdev2dev-nov _______________________________________________ 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/
