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



On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> It appears that Dropbox stores hard linked files as separate files. This
> kills snapshot-type of backups like rsnapshot.
> ?...
> 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.
>

I'd ? be surprised if any made-safe-for-normals cloud storage handled
Symbolic links, let alone hard links.
Windows remains the main market, and the % of OSX users who will use such
are few.
Gnu/Linux, *BSD, other Unix market for 'friendly' cloud storage is probably
very small ... and will remain very small if they don't offer what we'd
need.


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