Since hard links share the same target inode as the "real file", they
appear to be files as well.

As far as I know, NetWorker does not go onto the filesystem level, and
relies on the filesystem to tell it what each file is.  Using hard links
for "backup" does not make sense, since each "file", the real file and
the link file, will be obliterated if something happens to the
underlying inode(s).

Pretty much everything should be able to deal with sym-links and if you
just want a file to appear in 2 locations, they are the way to go.

When NetWorker backs up a symlink, it backs up the definition of the
link, not the target file, so when its restored it is still a sym-link
and not a real file.

Have a good one!

Jason



On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 13:52 -0500, Charles Gruener wrote:
>I tried searching the archives before posting this question, but I wasn't able 
>to locate anything.  If
>this is a duplicate question, I apologize in advance.
>
>I have a backup schedule utilizing rsync to create hard links on an ext3 
>filesystem.  This saves a
>great amount of space locally.  However, when backing up to the main server 
>via the NetWorker
>client, all of the hard links are copied in full.  The redundancy is killing 
>the backup time since I'm
>tranferring approximately 90% more data than necessary.
>
>Does NetWorker support hard links?  Is there an option I may be missing to 
>turn this feature on?
>
>Thanks!
>
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