On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 01:44:40PM +0100, dieter roelants wrote:
> > I've considered a script which does something like this:
> > 1.) Clone existing backup into a new directory by creating identical
> >     directories and hardlinks to the existing files.
> 
> Rsync can do that. Check the --link-dest option.

Indeed. That is very useful.

> > But I'm wondering whether somebody else has already done that. And
> > it would of course not preserve the ownerships.
> Maybe you can keep an mtree file with each backup?

Is there an utility to create "mtree" files?

	Kind regards

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