DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4079] rsync fails with --inplace,
--link-dest and --no-whole-file
samba-bugs at samba.org
samba-bugs at samba.org
Mon Sep 4 16:21:16 GMT 2006
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4079
------- Comment #3 from paul at debian.org 2006-09-04 11:21 MST -------
Hardlinking and then modifying the existing file in the --link-dest directory
is absolutely the wrong thing to do IMNSHO, this will break many "incremental"
backup strategies such as dirvish. (Dirvish at this time does not use
--inplace,
although I was just testing that out over the last couple of days... I guess I
can throw those backups away now :-( )
The manpage says:
--link-dest=DIR hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged
However, in these cases, the file _is_ changed, so hardlinking is the wrong
thing to do.
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