[Wolves] Using rsync and hard links for incremental backups

[Jono Bacon]

--- Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Wednesday, Aq mentioned the idea of using hard
> links to, essentially, 
> implement copy-on-write for incremental backups done
> with rsync.
> 
> A (probably over-) brief Googling didn't turn
> anything, so I set about 
> doing it myself.  The resulting script can be found
> at 
>
http://www.mavit.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rsync-incremental.pl

OK, for those of us who were not privy to the
conversation...could you explain what this is all
about and how your script works. :)

  Jono



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