Hi: I have attempted to following some instructions to use --link-dest in order to preserve space for multiple backups. I'm using rsync on Cygwin with a NAS (ext4) which does support hard-links on the filesystem. I've written a short program that does attempt to create a hard-link on this NAS from Cygwin and it does look to be working. If I run ls -li on the NAS the inodes are the same. However, on Cygwin the inodes returned are not. I assumed that what's important is that the NAS handles the hard-links correctly.
I checked the archives and it looks like a common mistake is inconsistent usage of the trailing backslash. My usage looks something like: % rsync -aP --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/home/Nancy/.rsync/exclude --link-dest=/cygdrive/f/macki/current/ Nancy /cygdrive/f/macki/incomplete-back-2012-06-05T13:53:51 I'm running this from "/cygwin/c/Documents and Settings/" directory, and the directory under the symlink "current" is "Nancy". Is there a way to tell if rsync thinks it's found a match and attempting to link? Thanks, -Clint -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
