Hello Isaac, thank you very much, I will try that. I improvised with another vault for anything BUT /home/user, but I would prefer a one-vault solution.
And thank you for reminding me of hardlink. I used it years ago and just forgot about it since then. :*) Cheers Vortex On 02.05.2015 00:01, Isaac W Traxler wrote: > You could do the following: > - make a new backup for home > - initialize it > - move all of your existing stuff into the directory > - run the hardlink command: hardlink /backup/system/home (or whatever it > is called) > > This does mean that for a while you have duplicate files. It might work to > just change your config and then do an init and then the hardlink (without > the moving...). > > After my backups finish, I actually run ardlink on each of them (every > file system I backup goes to a unique file system on the backup server). > Dirvish/rsync is simply comparing the current server to yesterday. If a > file keeps alternating between two versions you will have lots of unique > copies of it. By running the hardlink command you discover the redundant > files and eliminate them. > > -- > Isaac Traxler AIX,Linux Admin > Louisiana State University, LONI trax...@lsu.edu > High Performance Computing 225-578-1923 > Storage & Infrastructure > > On Fri, 1 May 2015, Vortex wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 10:31:22 >> From: Vortex <vor...@versanet.de> >> Reply-To: Dirvish user and developer mailing list <dirvish@dirvish.org> >> To: dirvish@dirvish.org >> Subject: [Dirvish] Subsequently expanding the tree? >> >> Greetings, >> >> how can I change the tree in the default.conf for future backups so that >> dirvish still recognizes the existing files for hardlinks? >> >> Say, I have images for /home/user an now I want to save the whole /home. >> >> I tried to change the tree in default.conf from /home/user to /home and >> moved the contents of the last good image in /bank/vault/tree to >> /bank/vault/tree/home to match the new tree path. But dirvish didn't >> recognized the data in /home/user to be the same in >> /bank/vault/tree/home/user and copied all data anew. >> >> I don't want to lose the hardlinks for the already backed up data. >> >> Of course, I could just make another tree for /home *except* /home/user >> but I want to keep the whole directory structure as it is in the original. >> >> I hope I made myself understandable. ;) >> >> Cheers >> >> Vortex >> >> -- >> "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as >> kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic >> pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." >> -- Marcus_Brigstocke, english comedian and satirist >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > Dirvish@dirvish.org > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish > -- "Ganz er selbst sein darf jeder nur, solange er allein ist; wer also nicht die Einsamkeit liebt, der liebt auch nicht die Freiheit: Denn nur wenn man allein ist, ist man frei." -- Arthur Schopenhauer, deutscher Philosoph (1788-1860)
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