BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

2009-06-09 07:15:45
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory
From: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 07:12:50 -0400
Hi,

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 06:44, Holger Parplies<wbppc AT parplies DOT de> wrote:
> yes, but however you fix it, you should be aware that you won't get pooling
> for already completed backups. Until they expire, they will contain
> independent copies of files. What's worse, rsync backups will hardlink 'same'
> files to the reference backup file (which will be outside the pool as long as
> it remains unchanged).

Can you use a script such as hardlink.py to create hardlinks out of
identical files in the BackupPC repository? Would that fix that issue
without the need to start over?

http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/

Cheers,
Filipe

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