NAS filesystem that supports hard links

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 12:16 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
> The solution was to use SSH, which is an option in Backintime (I
> think it required sshfs to be installed on the client). I'm doing
> this from Linux, not a Mac, so I don't know what your options are.

The trick is to make the linking happen locally on the NAS, i.e., get
the NAS to make the hard link. I think that's why sshfs worked, because
the call to make a hard link was then executed on the NAS, rather than
managed by the client.

rsync works by talking to a copy of rsync on the NAS, so it should work
similarly with rsync (and the transport is probably irrelevant, but
pretty much everyone uses ssh transport anyway).

I use Synology NASes at various locations and I have implemented rsync-
style solutions that save massive amounts of space by using hard
linking.

Most NASes these days are running some variant of Linux, so hard
linking should not be a problem for them.

Regards, K.

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