[Gllug] Symlink but with cow powers?

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Wed Apr 23 07:30:08 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 01:24 +0100, - Tethys wrote:

> 
> No, I'm not aware of anything like that, but what's the intended use?
> It sounds like you're wanting to do something like an incremental
> backup. If so, then consider using rsync and a tree of hard links,
> which should do what you want.
> 
> http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
> 
> Tet

Also worth looking at Dirvish for this job:
http://www.dirvish.org/

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