Re: Rsync and differential Backups

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On 11/09/2015 11:10 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
>And if you aren't familiar with hard links, which rsync happily creates,
>they were certainly hard enough to wrap my head around, until I got it...
More than one filename for a particular file.  What's difficult about that?

I think the difficult part is that so many people don't understand that EVERY regular file is a hard link. It doesn't mean "more than one" at all. A hard link is the association between a directory entry (filename) and an inode in the filesystem.

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