Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] Correct Setup for DVDRAM

["Pe'ter, Csa'sza'r" <csjpeter@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Simon wrote:

> Another way might be to use a read-writable media for storing the fs
> table. Possibly, using a modified ext2fs which would transparently work
> like a real ext2fs, a tool like rsync could be used to make true
> incremental backups using the hard-links trick. ...

I am not very good in these things, however I wonder what are you
meaning under "hard-links trick" in this case.

I have thought about several possible kind of backup strategy for
private purposes. Once I got the idea to use hard-links for incremental
backup on a large enough external hard drive. All the backups are in
directories by their date. While creating a backup a file is hard linked
and not copied if it exists in the last backup and have not changed
since that.

I don't know if this trick is in use by any already existing program. Do
you or anybody else know such tools?

Peter