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[Discuss] Dropbox does not respect Linux hard or symbolic links
- Subject: [Discuss] Dropbox does not respect Linux hard or symbolic links
- From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:54:00 -0400
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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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