On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:

> 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/

This only will work for files with identical copies already in the pool. 
I don't have experience with hardlinkpy, but fslint 
http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint does the same (and more).

Cheers,

Michael


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