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[Discuss] Dropbox does not respect Linux hard or symbolic links



The web sites don't show really good good info
It appears that Dropbox stores hard linked files as separate files. This
kills snapshot-type of backups like rsnapshot.
For instance (on my desktop)
-rw-rw-r-- 2 gaf gaf 692088 May  1 11:20 GetStarted.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 2 gaf gaf 692088 May  1 11:20 Get Started with Dropbox.pdf
lrwxrwxrwx    1 gaf gaf      28 Jun 12 10:59 GetSymlink.pdf -> Get Started
with Dropbox.pdf

On my laptop after a dropbox sync
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gaf gaf 692088 May  1 11:20 GetStarted.pdf
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gaf gaf 692088 May  1 11:20 Get Started with Dropbox.pdf
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gaf gaf 692088 May  1 11:20 GetSymlink.pdf

I suspect that many online cloud-based storage solutions will do a similar
thing. For my purpose, it just changes how I handle offsite backups since
my automatic backup to a local HD works fine.




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