Re: [rdiff-backup-users] hardlink-only mode?

[Dave Howorth]

roland wrote:
> hi !
> 
>> My hope is to create an option in rdiff-backup so that instead of the
>> mirror directory containing duplicates of the original data, the mirror
>> contains *hardlinks* to the original data.
> 
> i had a similar requirement like your`s - i wanted to have rdiff-backups
> from a remote system on which i couldn`t install rdiff-backup onto.
> so, i had to mirror it via rsync first and then make rdiff-backup from
> that local copy - so earch file existing twice and taking up unnecessary
> space.

I believe dirvish (www.dirvish.org) will do what you want. It only needs
rsync on the client machine.

Cheers, Dave