Thanks I'll look this up. There is still the issue of how to get the target
box cleaned up since I can no longer run --delete.
/jl
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:49:02AM -0400, Kevin Korb wrote:
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> You miss-understand the purpose of --link-dest. Ye
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You miss-understand the purpose of --link-dest. Yes, it gives you
multiple complete backups, but each only consumes the disk space
needed to store files that are unique to that backup. Files that are
the same in 2 backup runs are actually the same fi
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:16:47AM -0400, Kevin Korb wrote:
> If you were using --link-dest to make multiple backups you wouldn't
> need --delete because the target is always a new empty directory (with
> - --link-dest pointing to the previous backup run).
The source is around 200G and the t
