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| From: | Nate Eldredge |
| Subject: | Re: [Duplicity-talk] backups larger than source |
| Date: | Wed, 2 Sep 2015 19:58:54 -0600 (MDT) |
| User-agent: | Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) |
On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Matt Chipman wrote:
Thanks Edgar, Backuppc does deduping via hard links and I think Duplicity is storing multiple copies of the same files (via hard links) instead of just the hard links and the original file. I think I will have to rethink how I prepare my source as its ~800GB deduped does my reasoning make sense?
That's correct. Duplicity does not do any special handling for hard links; they are treated as if they were separate files. This is documented in the man page.
-- Nate Eldredge address@hidden
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