On 2013-05-06 11:23 AM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote:
On 6.5.2013, at 18.03, Charles Marcus <cmar...@media-brokers.com> wrote:
Hey Timo - so, how will rsync be affected as a backup app? Will it
maintain the deduped state in the backup target?
Ideally you'd rsync from a filesystem snapshot instead of from live filesystem,
otherwise the link counts might go wrong. And you need to use the -H parameter
for rsync so it preserves hard links.
Understood, and figured as much - I'll be using lvm snapshots and
rsnapshot (which keeps backups using hardlinks against previous backup
snapshots, making it easy to keep backups going back years without
taking up much more additional space.
Thanks,
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Best regards,
Charles
