It appears that this may have improved slightly since 2011 -- there's no longer an assertion failure....
My backups do: rsync --archive --sparse --numeric-ids --compress \ --fuzzy --hard-links --delete --quiet --one-file-system \ --link-dest=/mnt/backups/internal/ivanova/aleph/2014-10-15 \ ivanova:/mnt/aleph/. /mnt/backups/internal/ivanova/aleph/2014-10-16/. and today I got the error: rsync: link "/mnt/backups/internal/ivanova/aleph/2014-10-16/./home/jdamery/dev/projects/buildit/lis2las/rfid.o" => home/jdamery/dev/projects/buildit/addcurve/rfid.o failed: Too many links (31) although in my case my maximum is 32000 cleopatra:~# ls -l /mnt/backups/internal/ivanova/aleph/2014-10-15/./home/jdamery/dev/projects/buildit/lis2las/rfid.o -rw-rw-r-- 32000 jdamery 2001 37252 Jan 8 2008 /mnt/backups/internal/ivanova/aleph/2014-10-15/./home/jdamery/dev/projects/buildit/lis2las/rfid.o When it has this link failure rsync should make a new copy of the file exactly as if it had been unable to find a file to link in the first place. J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
