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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] hardlink-only mode?
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Dave Howorth |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] hardlink-only mode? |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:16:42 +0000 |
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roland wrote:
> hi !
>
>> My hope is to create an option in rdiff-backup so that instead of the
>> mirror directory containing duplicates of the original data, the mirror
>> contains *hardlinks* to the original data.
>
> i had a similar requirement like your`s - i wanted to have rdiff-backups
> from a remote system on which i couldn`t install rdiff-backup onto.
> so, i had to mirror it via rsync first and then make rdiff-backup from
> that local copy - so earch file existing twice and taking up unnecessary
> space.
I believe dirvish (www.dirvish.org) will do what you want. It only needs
rsync on the client machine.
Cheers, Dave