craignied wrote: : Thank you all for the well considered posts helping me navigate the : problem of backing up a Fedora box. rsnapshot and rdiff-backup are : appealing choices. For my particular problem, backing up the Fedora : disk to another disk connected to the same machine, it seemed that : backuppc and others like it come with a little too much overhead--I'm : not backing up 30 laptops to this box over a network--just trying to : backup one system to an external disk. : : So I configured rsnapshot, and started a run. Question: I'm backing : up to a ntfs-3g drive. Is that going to be an issue with rsnapshot, : which seems to intensively use hard links? If so, suggestions? I don't have an ntfs device handy to test. But I suppose that if this works: mkdir /ntfs/A /ntfs/B cp /usr/share/dict/words /ntfs/A/ ln /ntps/A/words /ntfs/B where "/ntfs" is the path to a directory on your ntfs-3g drive, then you're in business. Make sure that the link is a real hard link by editing "/ntfs/A/words" and making some change, then deleting (with, say, `rm -rf /ntfs/A') and seeing if "/ntfs/B/words" persists and your change is carried through. Dean
