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Pavel Machek wrote: > > Or did you mean the problem of tar backups growing *much* larger than > > the real filesystem? Yes, tar becomes useless for backups then. :) > > Yep, this is what I meant. A different but related problem: rsync cannot backup my kernel development directory from one hard disk to another, because it contains lots of kernel trees mostly hard linked to each other. rsync falls over, trying to keep track of the roughly half a million links. You might see similar problems trying to backup a strongly "copyfile"'d filesystems. -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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