Hi, Simon wrote:
> Another way might be to use a read-writable media for storing the fs > table. Possibly, using a modified ext2fs which would transparently work > like a real ext2fs, a tool like rsync could be used to make true > incremental backups using the hard-links trick. ... I am not very good in these things, however I wonder what are you meaning under "hard-links trick" in this case. I have thought about several possible kind of backup strategy for private purposes. Once I got the idea to use hard-links for incremental backup on a large enough external hard drive. All the backups are in directories by their date. While creating a backup a file is hard linked and not copied if it exists in the last backup and have not changed since that. I don't know if this trick is in use by any already existing program. Do you or anybody else know such tools? Peter
