What format is your backup drive? If the backup drive is formatted to a file system that does not support links (like exFAT ) hard links will be copied as duplicate lfiles and soft links may not be copied at all. SSDs and hard drives are usually supplied with a Windows file format, such as exFAT or NTFS and would need to be reformatted to a linux file system (such as the default format for your own linux systems, begore they will work properly with rsync. Ian On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 at 11:03, CL Junk <cljunk [ at ] aquafam [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been using rsync to perform automated backups to a separate > physical drive for years. I recently upgraded my hardware, including > switching to an SSD for my main drive and upgrading my backup drive. > The other recent change, is Mint Linux 16.04 to 20.04. > > My crontab executed script has not been altered. > > 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 am unsure where to look to figure out what may have changed. Any > suggestions you may have are appreciated. > > My sctript ... > > NOW=$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M") > BASE="/mnt/backup-int" > PREVIOUS=$(ls -r $BASE | head -1) > > echo . > echo Starting snapshot to internal media at $NOW > echo . > > if [ "$NOW" != "$PREVIOUS" ]; > then > TARGET="$BASE/$NOW" > LINK="$BASE/$PREVIOUS" > OPTIONS="--dry-run -rptgovDH --delete --link-dest=$LINK" > rsync $OPTIONS --include-from > '/home/carolyn/backupScripts/include-list.txt' --exclude-from > '/home/carolyn/backupScripts/exclude-list.txt' $SOURCE $TARGET > fi > > ... > > Thanks for your assistance! > > Carolyn > > 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 > -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Ian Earl Gorman | //www.gorman.ca/ | //web.ncf.ca/iegorman/ //github.com/iegorman/ | //www.linkedin.com/in/iegorman/ 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