Re: Hard links - How do they work

2024-02-19 Thread Dan Ritter
Keith Bainbridge wrote: > As promised: > I said sometime in this thread that timeshift (and Back in Time) use hard > links to create progressive copies of the system. The more I think about how > hard links reportedly work, I reckon it can't be simply hard links. > > So I'm starting a new thread

Re: Hard links - How do they work

2024-02-18 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 19/2/24 11:15, Kushal Kumaran wrote: Have you read their FAQ page about hard links? https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/FAQ.md#how-do-snapshots- with-hard-links-work Very interesting. Thank you I have totally missed the concept of copying all files as a starting point. I

Re: Hard links - How do they work: TANSTAAFL

2024-02-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:15:01 -0800 Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Have you read their FAQ page about hard links? > https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/FAQ.md#how-do-snapshots-with-hard-links-work An excellent writeup. The only thing I would add is that creating a hard link does require an e

Re: Hard links - How do they work

2024-02-18 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Mon, Feb 19 2024 at 10:52:16 AM, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > As promised: > I said sometime in this thread that timeshift (and Back in Time) use > hard links to create progressive copies of the system. The more I > think about how hard links reportedly work, I reckon it can't be > simply hard li