On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 09:34:53AM -0500, Alex Waite wrote:
>> Not a direct answer, but this may do what you want:
>>
>> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=rsync-patches.git;a=blob;f=link-by-hash.diff
>>
>> This patch adds the --link-by-hash=DIR option, which hard
>> links received
>> files in a link fa
Alex Waite (alexq...@gmail.com) wrote on 2 November 2011 20:09:
>Recently I learned that rsync does a checksum of every file
>transferred. I thought it might be interesting to record the path and
>checksum of each file in a table. On future backups, the checksum of
>a file being backed up
> Not a direct answer, but this may do what you want:
>
> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=rsync-patches.git;a=blob;f=link-by-hash.diff
>
> This patch adds the --link-by-hash=DIR option, which hard links received
> files in a link farm arranged by MD4 file hash. The result is that the
> system
> wi
>
> Check out http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/, it's perl-based backup tool,
> using rsync and doing exactly what you ask for.
>
I have looked at BackupPC before (and it is a nice piece of
software), and it does hardlink across all backups, but believe it
does its own checksum on top of what rs
On 03/11/2011 01:09, Alex Waite wrote:
> I apologize if this has already been discussed before, but as of
> yet I have been unable to find any info on the topic.
> I have a very simple (and common) disk based backup system using
> rsync, hard links, and a little bit of perl to glue it toget
