Les Mikesell wrote: > Joe Krahn wrote: ... >> If it is only for BackupPC >> files, the most efficient approach would be to build a feature into >> BackupPC. Any other tool is going to have to hunt for hard links. > > Backuppc doesn't really know anything about the hardlinks either once > they are made - which is why they work so well... There is a tool to > help copy an archive but it is fairly slow too. > That is why I say it would need to be a built in feature rather than just a backup tool. File system actions including hard links could be replicated when they are made, so that you never have to go back and find them.
To avoid performance problems, you could log a sort of file action journal, and replicate it during the day which backups are idle. Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
