Re: Changing path in old backups - WAS: Re: Changing permissions on existing backup source

2014-01-04 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't use rsnapshot so I don't know if it can handle that or not but doing an mv will not disrupt the hard link structure itself. On 01/04/2014 03:18 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2014-01-01 1:12 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: >> The easiest solution is to

Changing path in old backups - WAS: Re: Changing permissions on existing backup source

2014-01-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2014-01-01 1:12 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: The easiest solution is to just do the same chmod on the most recent backup before running the next backup. Hi Kevin, This worked perfectly, and my shiny new server is now live, so thanks very much. I have a related question though... I want to con

Re: Changing permissions on existing backup source

2014-01-02 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/2014 09:53 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > First off, thanks much for your suggestions. ... >> First, a new column for the old cp -al then rsync on top of it >> method that --link-dest mostly replaced. It is slower since all >> the hard links get

Re: Changing permissions on existing backup source

2014-01-02 Thread Dan Stromberg
First off, thanks much for your suggestions. On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: > First, a new column for the old cp -al then rsync on top of it method > that --link-dest mostly replaced. It is slower since all the hard > links get made and then some get replaced or deleted but it

Re: Changing permissions on existing backup source

2014-01-02 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Interesting list. I have a couple of suggestions I can offer... First, a new column for the old cp -al then rsync on top of it method that --link-dest mostly replaced. It is slower since all the hard links get made and then some get replaced or dele

Re: Changing permissions on existing backup source

2014-01-02 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > If I change the permissions on the source maildirs, will this cause > everything to be transferred again? Meaning, will rsync see everything as > 'modified', thus creating a new copy of the entire mail store on the backup > target? > > Or wi

Re: Changing permissions on existing backup source

2014-01-02 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yep, if you change 1 you change the hard links in all of them. On 01/02/2014 06:09 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2014-01-01 1:12 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: >> The files will not be transferred but they will be stored >> separately as new versions of the

Re: Changing permissions on existing backup source

2014-01-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2014-01-01 1:12 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: The files will not be transferred but they will be stored separately as new versions of the file even if the content is the same. Ok, so, 'stored separately' = take up additional space? which is what I want to avoid. Permissions are per inode not di

Re: Changing permissions on existing backup source

2014-01-01 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The files will not be transferred but they will be stored separately as new versions of the file even if the content is the same. Permissions are per inode not directory entry so you can't have old and new permissions without breaking the hard link rel