[Duplicity-talk] Re: Support for hard links

[Daniel Wallin]

Heiko Scheit wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> any idea when duplicity will support hard links?  Or is the
> information on the duplicity web page about not supporting hard links
> out of date?

This doesn't directly answer your question, but: we use duplicity to
back up a FreeBSD system. Before doing to back up, we find all the hard
links on the file system. We exclude the duplicate hard links using
--exclude-file and keep a list of them in the backup. After a restore,
we use the list to restore the hard links. It's a bit of a hack, but it
seems to work really well for us.

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Daniel Wallin
BoostPro Computing
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