Amazon S3 and rsync snapshots?
James Kramer
kramerjm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Jan 2 18:09:03 EST 2009
> 2. The rsync snapshots process uses hard links to make each daily backup
> directory look like a complete filesystem -- daily.0, daily.1,
> daily.2, etc. are
> all complete filesystems from different days, but files that are the same in
> all of these are hard-linked to a single instance, so it doesn't waste storage
> space with multiple copies of the same file. Is it possible to do the same
> with an s3-based solution?
>
Wow! sounds neat. I don't know if it is possible. It is way above my
understanding of both processes.
Jay
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