[Bug 8456] improve --link-dest bahaviour

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sun Sep 18 23:27:17 MDT 2011


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, <samba-bugs at samba.org> wrote:

> I'd like to use rsync as an efficient (== do not store the same file twice
> at
> the backup media) backup solution.


Check out PCBackup -- it can use rsync (either via ssh or a daemon) and
stores files without duplicates.

There's also a diff in the patches called link-by-hash that will hard link
files together that have the same hash because it maintains a directory of
hash-named files.

..wayne..
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