On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:20:57PM -0600, Chris McKeever wrote: > so the chain goes > > hardlink a mirror directory to a new folder > rsync live data to a mirror directory > deleted files between the mirror/live data are then persistant in the > hardlinked daily directories
Doing this can tweak the permissions/ownership/mod-time of any files that are hard-linked into the destination directory. You can choose to do this if you don't mind the older files inheriting the more modern file attributes in order to save disk space. This method requires --delete but does not need --link-dest. The first method mentioned in this thread was rsyncing into an empty directory using --link-dest. This method has no need of --delete, and any files that differ in either contents OR attributes are created anew in the brand new destination hierarchy -- only completely identical files are hard linked together with the files in the --link-dest hierarchy. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
