On Sat, 2015-08-15 at 09:12 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 08/15/2015 05:17 AM, Frank Crawford wrote: > > However, these days, hard links are not that common, as most people > > prefer symbolic links. > > You might want to look in the directory trees under > /usr/share/zoneinfo > and /var/lib/yum/yumdb and reconsider that statement. Files in that > latter tree can have over 1000 hard links, and there are changes > there > whenever you install/update/uninstall packages. rdiff-backup does a > pretty horrible job of keeping the archive in sync with the source > when there are changes, and regressing a backup makes it worse. I > have > an very complex audit that I run after every backup to put the > archive > back in sync with the source tree.
You are quiet likely right, although I doubt that you will have much activity going on under /usr/share/zoneinfo. However, /var/lib/yum/yumdb is a slightly different issue. A quick scan on my system shows that there are quiet a few hard links, but depending on how often you do updates will affect changes there. Also, the size of them is usually less than a single block, so, yes, you will chew up space but not a lot. Personally, if I was concerned about space, I'd be excluding /var/lib/yum/yumdb anyway, and rebuild it if you ever do a full restore. Regards Frank _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
