On 6/12/2016 11:09 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > It appears that Dropbox stores hard linked files as separate files. This > kills snapshot-type of backups like rsnapshot.
Yup. Dropbox can't replicate hard links. The backing storage is AWS buckets which don't do POSIX. > 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. Privacy issues aside, if you really want to use third party storage with your own backup system I suggest getting a small EC2 instance running Linux and a couple of EBS volumes with mirrored Btrfs or ZFS. -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
