There have been a lot of posts on the list lately about issues with hard
links. It has been very interesting, but I don't understand it very
thoroughly. I haven't used hard links for anything yet. I've used
symlinks - not for backups, of course - and have seen them get broken or
deleted in
This may help: (man ln)
A hard link to a file is
indistinguishable from the original directory entry; any changes to a
file are effectively independent of the name used to reference the file.
Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file
systems.
Assuming you do many
