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rsync --link-dest option

Asked by afrodoc

after reading this page,

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

 i thought i would bring it to your attention in case you have not noticed it. i briefly looked at the BIT code, and i didnt notice that you all where using this option (its same as cp -al).

its a good tutorial and it only using one program, rsync, to do incremental backups.
BIT my be doing the same thing, and i just didnt notice.

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

BIT does not use "--link-dest" option because this option does not work if the user/group/rights are not the same (and they are not if you backup on a FAT/NTFS drive, and in BIT snapshots are real-only)

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