On 08/03/13 12:20, backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org wrote:
> Mark Campbell wrote at about 10:43:04 -0700 on Wednesday, March 6, 2013:
>  > I see.  I just assumed that it was possible based on Lars' comments.  
> Something I just noticed as I was browsing through the config files, could it 
> be possible to disable this by changing $Conf{HardLinkMax} = 31999 to 1?
>
> This must be one of the absolute WORST ideas I have heard in a long
> time...
>
> First, setting it to 1 would be nothing could hard link to the pool
> not even the first backup so BackupPC would probably crash/thrash
> immediately. You would at least want to set it to 2 since the pool
> file itself is a link.
>
> Furthermore, doing so would really slow things down since now every
> duplicated file would lead to a chain that would need to be walked
> when adding/comparing a new file. Also, BackupPC_nightly would slow
> down as chains would need to be renumbered now most of the time
> instead of by exception.
>
> Plus, there might be cases where HardLinkMax will fail if set to 1.
>
> Most of all, why even have a pool if only one file ever links to it.
Indeed, perhaps a better solution would be to simply rm -rf the pool
every night. Still run the nightly script to send warnings about
machines not backed up/etc

Regards,
Adam


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