On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> wrote:
> It appears that Dropbox stores hard linked files as separate files. This > kills snapshot-type of backups like rsnapshot. > ... > 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. > I'd be surprised if any made-safe-for-normals cloud storage handled Symbolic links, let alone hard links. Windows remains the main market, and the % of OSX users who will use such are few. Gnu/Linux, *BSD, other Unix market for 'friendly' cloud storage is probably very small ... and will remain very small if they don't offer what we'd need. 'We don't see many camels in this bar.' 'At these prices, i'm not surprised.' -- Bill Ricker [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
