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



On 6/12/2016 11:09 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> It appears that Dropbox stores hard linked files as separate files. This
> kills snapshot-type of backups like rsnapshot.

Yup. Dropbox can't replicate hard links. The backing storage is AWS
buckets which don't do POSIX.


> 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.

Privacy issues aside, if you really want to use third party storage with
your own backup system I suggest getting a small EC2 instance running
Linux and a couple of EBS volumes with mirrored Btrfs or ZFS.

-- 
Rich P.



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