support hardlinks
Bug #780295 reported by
Brian Parma
This bug affects 10 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duplicity |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The web site says that it's currently unsupported and I was surprised I didn't find a wishlist bug report about it. It would be really useful to support hardlinks. I would like to use duplicity to remotely backup my 'backuppc' archive off-site, and backuppc uses hardlinks to duplicate unchanged files. As is, if I were to use duplicity without doing something about the hard links, the size would more than double.
Revision history for this message
| Łukasz R. (luke1981) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in duplicity: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman) wrote Update bug:, status confirmed, importance medium | #2 |
| Changed in duplicity: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
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I absolutetly second the request for hard links.
The lack of hard link support keeps me from using `duplicity` as a backup tool. For instance I have a huge `Pictures` directory which is organized through the hard links (a picture can reside in `Sunset`, `Mountains`, `Bike`, etc. directories) which serve as tags. Same for the `Music` directory. But these are just a few examples. Without hard links, a backup of my disk would be maybe 10 times bigger that the disk size.
Meanwhile I need to use `dar` od `rdiff-backup` which support hard links.