Jonathan Dowland [2015-10-27 10:53:25Z] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:10:54PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> I suggest "rsync --link-dest" too. Symbolic links are a nice way to >> store the previous (and currently newest) backup destination >> directory. So maybe like this in the backup destination machine: > > --link-dest doesn't create symbolic links, it uses hard links. I know. In my message I explained how we, script-writers, can use symbolic links to maintain pointer to the newest backup directory made by "rsync --link-dest". That's how the next backup (rsync invocation) can find its --link-dest target, for example.
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