Steve wrote at about 19:15:20 -0400 on Monday, August 8, 2011:
 > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
 > <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
 > > Finally, out of curiosity, I grepped the BackupPC code base for the
 > > error language "too many links" cited verbatimu by the OP and found that 
 > > such
 > > a phrase only occurs in the comments and hence is not even a valid
 > > error code...
 > 
 > That error is almost certainly directly from rsync, not backuppc.  I
 > saw it many times trying to use rsync to duplicate backuppc.  I never
 > figured out what caused it, since I never exceeded the number of
 > links.  I just gave up duplicating that way :)
 > 
 > Evets

Not sure if this helps, but googling showed that the several reported
cases of rsync giving that error seem to be due to having too many
subdirectories since each subdirectory requires a link back to the
directory and hence the file system max link limitation applies also
to the maximum number of subdirectories. So, in your case is it
possible that you had more subdirectories somewhere than the allowable
max links?

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