support hardlinks

Bug #780295 reported by Brian Parma
46
This bug affects 10 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Duplicity
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

The web site says that it's currently unsupported and I was surprised I didn't find a wishlist bug report about it. It would be really useful to support hardlinks. I would like to use duplicity to remotely backup my 'backuppc' archive off-site, and backuppc uses hardlinks to duplicate unchanged files. As is, if I were to use duplicity without doing something about the hard links, the size would more than double.

Revision history for this message
Łukasz R. (luke1981) wrote :

I absolutetly second the request for hard links.

The lack of hard link support keeps me from using `duplicity` as a backup tool. For instance I have a huge `Pictures` directory which is organized through the hard links (a picture can reside in `Sunset`, `Mountains`, `Bike`, etc. directories) which serve as tags. Same for the `Music` directory. But these are just a few examples. Without hard links, a backup of my disk would be maybe 10 times bigger that the disk size.

Meanwhile I need to use `dar` od `rdiff-backup` which support hard links.

Changed in duplicity:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman) wrote : Update bug:, status confirmed, importance medium

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

 status confirmed
 importance medium
 done
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEExwf+p6/3mDvUSsaGH1G0ZBEHM/EFAmBmHN0ACgkQH1G0ZBEH
M/FwmggAuSZ/QATWRx84DcVsl7+TWLvl+ESE1131d5JQuiZ4o4mIfJiYGrOF2bLS
fdzo1AetvJ7lRmy1KgS6HLtfm9Hxcv7A+mGyKHiwwQNlgxuVyEs+AorgungamfV5
JAOVGheVYUIa4mAIUIAQ9wSggDIMDab1gZ1yqgwmkIb8RXnzLnTLvfM0hG4F3ETl
8YaBg+07+2m67upEq6Gq9V5FyEvb3QqmdskY+4cvSHKiCi/3jJ21XMlPfOFMaWgg
GvSuV1B3P75StPoN3iRscFKrNRn5C8AKDHM2g+0OJqNRLShdHslqI4DTpM28R3xr
rpmgiD9J9TMj13h0/EiyJuU2lA2WXw==
=KhBW
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Changed in duplicity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.