I don't seem to have hard links at all:
/backup/hourly.2/ # ls
alpha beta
/backup/hourly.0/ # ls
alpha
The snapshots don't 'look like' full images.
On 8/28/06,
Eric Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 08/28/06 14:02, Matt Hansen wrote:
> I just started using rsnapshot, but it's gone through a few hourly
> backups, and I'm not getting the results that I expected. From what I
> read, I'm supposed to have a hard link to every file in each of the
> hourly.0, hourly.1 , etc directories that points to the version of the
> file that was there when the snapshot was taken.
>
> Instead, hourly.2 (the oldest at the moment) contains most of the files
> (~180GB), and hourly.1 and hourly.0 each contain ~30GB of files.
> Overall, around 210GB of files are being backed up, and no more than 1GB
> or so should have changed in between snapshots. In the hourly.0
and
> hourly.1 directories, there are no hard links to the previous copy of
> the files, and there are full copies of files that didn't change.
I think you aren't looking at the data correctly, because it looks fine
to me. When you look at the files, are you sure the files don't show a
link count of more than 1?
> # rsnapshot du
> 31G /backup/hourly.0/
> 29G /backup/hourly.1/
> 182G /backup/hourly.2/
> 241G total
>
> # du -csh hourly.0/ hourly.1/ hourly.2/
> 35G hourly.0/
> 29G hourly.1/
> 182G hourly.2/
> 244G total
>
> # du -sh hourly.0/ hourly.1
/ hourly.2/
> 35G hourly.0/
> 30G hourly.1/
> 211G hourly.2/
>
> # cat /etc/rsnapshot.conf | grep '^[^#]'
> config_version 1.2
> snapshot_root /backup/
> cmd_cp /bin/cp
> cmd_rm /bin/rm
> cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync
> cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh
> cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger
> cmd_du /bin/du
> interval hourly 4
> interval daily 7
> interval weekly 4
> link_dest 1
> verbose 2
> loglevel 3
> logfile /var/log/rsnapshot
> lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
> backup root@alpha
:/home/ alpha/
> backup root@alpha:/etc/ alpha/
> backup root@alpha:/root/ alpha/
> backup /home/ beta/
>
> As you can see from the conf file, I'm backing files up from alpha onto
> beta, and also from beta onto a separate hard drive on beta. It seems to
> be making a full copy of the files on beta every time, and failing to do
> something else correctly on alpha. Both machines have been on the whole
> time. Can anyone provide some insight?
>
> --
> Matt Hansen
> Electrical Engineering and Physics at MTU
> Aerospace Enterprise - GNC Team Leader
> (906) 370.3011
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