Hi, On 05/05/18 03:40, Martin McCormick wrote: > rsnapshot hard-links files that haven't changed to save space. I > am doing two half-day backups and a daily each day. Shouldn't > the inode number as in ls -i filename stay the same for all the > backups? There is a daily.0 file plus a halfday.0 and a > halfday.1 backup and all 3 have different inode numbers for the > same file which hasn't changed since 2008. Doing ls -l on that > file does show 3 links to it. On the working drive, there is > only 1 which is what it should be.
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