You might want to add a -c every so many backups. It takes longer, but it checks to make sure src and dst are actually the same instead of just checking metadata for sameness.
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 09:01 Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > The one possible downside of hardlinks I have run into in the past decade > is if one or the other side is memory constrained. It requires tracking > inode numbers to make links to files that have been seen already. If it > causes trouble, get more memory. Hardlinks are worth it! :-) > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 08:56 Galen Seitz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> A question for those of you using rsync for backup, particularly those >> using dirvish or rsnapshot. Are you using any of the following rsync >> options to your rsync command? I recently discovered that none of these >> are present in my rsnapshot configuration. I'm certain I want to add >> --xattrs in order to preserve the selinux security context. Adding >> --acls seems harmless, even though I dont' think I'm using them. I'm >> tempted to add --sparse and --hard-links, but I'm concerned there might >> be some downsides of which I'm unaware. Thoughts? >> >> -A, --acls preserve ACLs (implies -p) >> -X, --xattrs preserve extended attributes >> -S, --sparse handle sparse files efficiently >> -H, --hard-links preserve hard links >> >> thanks, >> galen >> -- >> Galen Seitz >> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
