On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, CL Junk wrote:
It now appears that the backups are no longer sharing hard links, making them use much more space. I have now filled 4TBs with backups in weeks, when it would typically take a year to fill 1TB prior to my upgrades.
I don't have an answer to your primary question right away - without RTFMing, your options look familiarly correct.
But before I forget, I wanted to mention the utility "hardlink". You can use it to search for and relink your identical files to reclaim your space.
Be aware that it took a loooong time to run (like overnight or a day for a large set of files), at least when I used it over a year ago. But it has
worked for me to solve the same problem.. You might also want to check out rsnapshot, a script which does hard linked, versioned backups. Brett To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org