rsync/incementral

[rogerhoward at rogerroger.org]

On Aug 1, 2007, at 6:55 PM, steve harley wrote:

> they whom i call Roger Howard wrote:
>> Am going to begin testing on a much larger filesystem soon.
>
> it would be most excellent if you'd write us an update when the  
> test results are in
>
>> Since we're
>> using this (if it works) for nearline/disk-to-disk, I have no need  
>> to open
>> hardlinked files in apps - just backup and restore.
>
> i didn't mean to imply that one should mess around with the backed  
> up files; but neither do i know if that's the only way one might  
> encounter problems with HFS+ hard links ...

Good point... I'm curious to see how well it works when scaled up  
this big - I've used it at home for backups for a while with no  
problems, I love this approach to managing disk-based incrementals -  
very convenient. If HFS-based hardlinks prove to be a problem, we  
might just run it off a Linux box with a different filesystem. It's  
just a bunch of data, no real permissions issues, ACLs, resource  
forks, or other OSX-isms we'd be concerned about. But it's a LOT of  
data. For the record, we do tape too, but having a nearline copy with  
incrementals will be great.

-R