On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, at 2:50 PM, j...@bitminer.ca wrote: >>> >>> No, but your backup system should give you the ability to recover >>> historic versions of files. Maybe not with the granularity you would >>> like. >> >> that's true. daily would be granular enough, though more often would >> be nice. > > If you want daily history, irrespective of how many changes were > made that day, then make hard links (-l) to a date-coded directory > using pax in copy mode (-r -w). In this case, your filesystem will > never get smaller even after "deleting" files. > > Additional, smarter options are possible with pax, and cron, or both.
thanks, that is a simple solution. can ffs run out of inodes as ext2 can?
