Dan Langille schrieb: > Reply has been rearranged to retain chronological order. > > On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Ingo Jochim wrote: > >> Dan Langille schrieb: >>> Ingo Jochim wrote: >>>> I create hard links for the files I want to backup so that while I do >>>> the backup the files can get deleted by someone else. >>>> >>>> The problem is that on an incremental backup I get a backup of all >>>> the files again like I got on a full backup. >>>> I create all the hard links right before the backup. A hard link >>>> points to the same file with the same date and so. >>>> Why does bacula backup all the files again? >>> >>> Because the dates on the hard links are newer than the previous backup. >>> >>> >>> Hi Dan, >>> >>> a hard link looks like the original file. So it always should have the >>> same date. >>> Below you will see that the hard link (second line) has the same >>> date at >>> the "original" file. >>> I created the hard link today but it also has the date from november >>> the >>> 23th. >>> >>> Ingo >>> >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l file.JPG >>> -rw-rw-r-- 2 root root 314099 23. Nov 15:58 file.JPG >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l backup/file.JPG >>> -rw-rw-r-- 2 mother mother 314099 23. Nov 15:58 backup/file.JPG >> > > You create these hard links just before you run > each backup. Is that correct? > > Correct. So I do like a snapshot. The original files can get deleted after the snapshot and I'm still able to finish my backup to tape.
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