devuan@??? said on Wed, 29 May 2024 08:33:20 +0200

>On Sun, 26 May 2024 20:48:18 +0200
>Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@???> wrote:

>> In my case I:
>>
>> 1. backup my data over the local network to a file system in one
>> partition on another machine
>>
>> 2. copy that data using rsync with hard links to another file system
>> on a different partition on the same machine as the backup
>
>Hard links across partitions? Shouldn't that be impossible, because
>the hard link is just another reference to the same inode?

Yes, quite impossible. What we have here is a misunderstanding. Anthony
meant that he copies all the stuff to another tree, and *on that tree*
makes hard links to implement incremental backups. So all of Anthony's
hard links reference files on the same partition as the hard links.

By the way, I do that too, except my destination is a USB3 hard drive.

SteveT

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