Continuing my “I’m on vacation and I have so much mental capacity to finish my projects at home” series of wins, I finally migrated my Zoneminder server from my workstation to a VM I created expressly for this purpose. Now I have two Zoneminder servers that do the same exact thing in different ways. I’ll …
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Hardlinks 2: Electric Boogaloo
Followup to the previous post, after moving the hardlinked file to another folder and waiting for last night’s backup to run, I can confirm that the inode ref count increases as expected. Before backup, ref count was 43 (that includes the backup from Saturday, which happened before I wrote up that post). This morning, it’s …
Only the Hardest Links
At home I use backintime as my backup software (a FOSS clone of Apple’s Time Machine). It works fantastically (and has saved my ass several times). It’s a Python framework around some very clever rsync magic; daily incremental snapshots are light on space because it uses hard links on the backend storage if a file …