On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:50 -0700, fglos wrote: > I have setup rsync to backup another linux computer with the link-dest option > and realized storage savings. 1st backup is 31gb, daily backups only take > approx 4gb. But when I rsync with link-dest to usb external drive all > backups take up 31gb. Following is 1st the one that works and 2nd with no > storage savings. Any ideas? Thanks, Frank
> rsync --exclude-from=/root/bkup_excludes -avz --delete -e "ssh -i > /root/cron/aebkup-rsync-key" --link-dest=/aeprodbk/current [EMAIL > PROTECTED]:/ /aeprodbk/$d >>$d.log > rsync --exclude-from=/root/bkup_excludes -av --delete > --link-dest=$dsk/current /aeprodbk/$d $dsk >> /usb$d.log The trouble is that on the second run, the file-list paths of the files begin with $d (since the source lacks a trailing slash), so the --link-dest option is looking for previous files under $dsk/current/$d . To fix this, add a trailing slash and adjust the destination correspondingly: rsync --exclude-from=/root/bkup_excludes -av --delete --link-dest=$dsk/current /aeprodbk/$d/ $dsk/$d >> /usb$d.log Matt
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