The web sites don't show really good good info It appears that Dropbox stores hard linked files as separate files. This kills snapshot-type of backups like rsnapshot. For instance (on my desktop) -rw-rw-r-- 2 gaf gaf 692088 May 1 11:20 GetStarted.pdf -rw-rw-r-- 2 gaf gaf 692088 May 1 11:20 Get Started with Dropbox.pdf lrwxrwxrwx 1 gaf gaf 28 Jun 12 10:59 GetSymlink.pdf -> Get Started with Dropbox.pdf
On my laptop after a dropbox sync -rw-rw-r--. 1 gaf gaf 692088 May 1 11:20 GetStarted.pdf -rw-rw-r--. 1 gaf gaf 692088 May 1 11:20 Get Started with Dropbox.pdf -rw-rw-r--. 1 gaf gaf 692088 May 1 11:20 GetSymlink.pdf I suspect that many online cloud-based storage solutions will do a similar thing. For my purpose, it just changes how I handle offsite backups since my automatic backup to a local HD works fine. -- -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: B7F14F2F Key fingerprint: D937 A424 4836 E052 2E1B 8DC6 24D7 000F B7F1 4F2F _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
