[BackupPC-users] Is there any way for BackupPC to restore hard links properly?

[Jeffrey J. K. <bac...@ko...>]

Looking at the code and the structure of the storage and attrib files,
it doesn't seem like there is any way for BackupPC to record and
restore hard links.

Specifically, since Backuppc uses hard links to pool files and since
the attrib database doesn't seem to record hard links, it would seem
that there is no way to keep track of hard links.

It would seem that this would make accurate restores impossible --
indeed not only would you end up "duplicating" storage but you may
unwittingly lead to directories getting out of synch that should be
hard-linked.

On the other hand, one of the beautiful advantages of naked rsync is
that it can keep track of hard links.

Am I missing something obvious here?
If not, is this something that can/should/will be corrected?

Thanks!