Re: [rdiff-backup-users] recreation of hard links? (was: sshfs: workaround and test results)

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Andreas Olsson wrote:
> On the other hand, when doing the same backup against a local folder,
> supporting hard links nativly, I also get the following info in each  
> files
> metadata
>
>  NumHardLinks 2
>  Inode 4538655
>  DeviceLoc 65025
>
> Is there anyone who has managed to get hard links recreated who can  
> share some
> info on it? What versions are running? What is the metadata supposed  
> to look
> like? Is there any output regarding to the links showed when running  
> on
> higher verbosity?

Hi Andreas,

It sure looks to me like rdiff-backup never properly handled the case  
where hard links were unsupported on the destination filesystem.

Fortunately, it was a 2-line fix in CVS to make it do so. It can now  
restore hard links even when the backup is stored on, say, an sshfs  
filesystem.


thanks for your careful testing,
Andrew