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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2018-01-12 at 11:57 -0500, Anton Aylward wrote: ...
But if you go back you'll also see mention of scatter-gather. Hard links have to be on the same file system' symlinks can cross file systems.
Yes, I could have a scratch hardlink directory for backup on each FS and then point K3B at *ALL* of them, but that gets to be a nightmare from the admin & list generation POV.
But most tools by default copy the symlink, not the file pointed at. If you tell the tool to copy the file pointed at, ie, to follow the symlinks, it will do so with all symlinks, destroying the symlink structures you may have on the source. Years ago I wrote a backup script that would first create a new directory tree without files, replicating the directory tree that I was going to backup. Then the files were copied to that tree, but using "mkzftree", which compressed the files (I'm reading from the script, I tried several variants). Finally I would create an ISO image using "mkisofs -z ...", ie, resulting in a compressed DVD, which is transparently readable on Linux. AFAIK k3b does not support this. No way I know of to create such an ISO in one go, nor to estimate the size before starting. - From the command line it is possible to create an ISO taking a list of source paths, thus scriptable. Nothing of the above handles incremental backups. It could be done by doing rsyncs to another hard disk (single huge partition), using a new directory for each "increment". Each of those directories might be then copied to separate DVDs - but you need to keep the hard disk. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpZG3wACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WdrwCfb/ZBSvA9+hdU5cXGrkDgQzmc NqoAn38K9pv4Agit3fWRBRhUglgs708F =oJI4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org