Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC doesn't handle hard links

[john s. <js9...@ya...>]

> > > tarExtract: Got unknown type 1 for
> some/file/name
> > 
> > An initial fix will be to simply copy the file,
> and it will be
> > correctly replaced with a hardlink.  A much better
> fix will be
> > to immediately make the hardlink, but that will
> take some extra
> > changes to BackupPC_link and
> BackupPC::Lib::LinkNewFile(), since
> > they ignore files that already have multiple
> links.
> > 
> > I'll should be able to send a patch in approx 24
> hours that should
> > fix the problem.
> 
> Here's the patch.  Just add the indicated lines to
> BackupPC_tarExtract.
> This fix is not ideal.  A better fix involves a few
> more changes.
> Also, BackupPC_tarCreate needs to re-create
> hardlinks too so that
> restore recovers the hardlinks.  These things will
> be fixed properly
> in the next version.
> 
> Please tell me if this works.
> 
> Craig
> 

The patch worked!  I tested on a small directory that
I create to test with and it worked.  I'll try a full
back up later tonight, it takes a few hours to run a
full backup, so I won't know until tomorrow if it
worked 100%.

I would like to see a hard link replaced by a hard
link instead of individual files, but only if one of
the original files already existed.  That will be an
interesting programming feat.

Thanks.

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