Backing up.

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/11/12 Francisco Borges <francisco.borges at gmail.com>:
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2008/11/12 Francisco Borges <francisco.borges at gmail.com>:
>> > I stoped using it when I found faubackup, which is much, much simpler,
>> > and
>> > has the advantage that all your files area available directly instead of
>> > a
>> > ".dar.[0-9]" file.
>> >
>> > Faubackup actually presents you with a complete view of all your files,
>> > at
>> > any backup point and allows the space-saving incremental backup feature
>> > at
>> > the same time due to hard linking. (note that I guess Dar does a diff
>> > between different versions of a file, while faubackup just adds a new
>> > copy
>> > for the new version of the file)
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > --
>> > Francisco
>>
>> I can see that Faubackup and hard links can be good specially when
>> needed to save memory but the problem with hard links is that you
>> can't link to other partitions or drives so you are forced to store
>> the backup to same media you backing up. Which kind of destroying the
>> whole purpose of a backup.
>
> No, no, no.... no, no!
>
> :-)
>
> There are no hard-links to the original media. The hard links are created
> between the different backups.
>
> There are a bunch of hard-links between the different (full) backups you
> make, so although you actually have (from a file system standpoint) a view
> of each backup as a full backup, you only spend the space on disk once.
>
> sorry if I was unclear.
>

Don't worry!

Then i understand.