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 …
Tag Archives: filesystem
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 …
Swap-o-Rama (¡UUID Es Me Llamo!)
(Just for the sake of remembering my own damn self — and maybe helping someone else.) Earlier, I attempted to hibernate my desktop. Never done it in the 15 months I’ve had Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on here, so I figured “Hell, why not?” I hit the dropdown, and the system commenced its hibernating shutdown action. …