Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

[Filipe B. <fil...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 06:44, Holger Parplies<wb...@pa...> wrote:
> yes, but however you fix it, you should be aware that you won't get pooling
> for already completed backups. Until they expire, they will contain
> independent copies of files. What's worse, rsync backups will hardlink 'same'
> files to the reference backup file (which will be outside the pool as long as
> it remains unchanged).

Can you use a script such as hardlink.py to create hardlinks out of
identical files in the BackupPC repository? Would that fix that issue
without the need to start over?

http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/

Cheers,
Filipe