That solves it. I'd overlooked that portion of the documentation because it
starts by saying that option is automatic in Windows versions > 1.2.1, and
I'm running 1.2.5. I guess that's not actually the case.

Thanks for the help,

- Austin

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Josh Nisly <[email protected]>wrote:

> I've been seeing this consistently, unless I use the --no-hard-links
> option. If you use that option, are unchanged files still incremented?
>
> JoshN
>
>
> Austin Roberts wrote:
>
>> Can anyone confirm that this behavior is abnormal for backing up Windows
>> to Linux? I've tried it on XP backing up to an Ubuntu Hardy desktop, and on
>> Vista backing up to an Ubuntu Intrepid laptop. In both cases the target file
>> system was JFS, and I ended up with numerous increments for files that
>> haven't changed. It may be the JFS file system, in which case I could try
>> something else, but first I'd like some verification that people are
>> experiencing normal behavior backing up from Windows to Linux.
>>
>> - Austin
>>
>
>
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