RE: Is there a howto/tutorial on backups/rsync that covers the use of hard and soft links?

This may help: (man ln) A hard link to a file is indistinguishable from the original directory entry; any changes to a file are effectively independent of the name used to reference the file. Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file systems. Assuming you do many bac

Is there a howto/tutorial on backups/rsync that covers the use of hard and soft links?

There have been a lot of posts on the list lately about issues with hard links. It has been very interesting, but I don't understand it very thoroughly. I haven't used hard links for anything yet. I've used symlinks - not for backups, of course - and have seen them get broken or deleted in backu

Re: rsync - using a --files-from list to cut out scanning. How to handle deletions? (fwd)B

Paul Wayne, Kevin, Teodor and others, Thanks for your contributions in response to my postings. Paul: I was very imprecise if not plain wrong in my description. :-( Thanks for explaining what really happens. "Rsync will not update an existing file in-place unless you use the --inplace option.