[Box Backup] Impact of the bug #63 (hardlinks not supported)

[Thomas Capricelli]

Hi,

I'm also having lot of such repositories (mercurial) and I would also be interested in a (somewhat) official answer to this question.

regards,
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Thomas Capricelli <orzel at freehackers.org>
http://www.freehackers.org/thomas

On Monday 13 December 2010 15:54:49 Dmitry Astapov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a new boxbackup user, and I have a massive ammount of warnings desribed
> in #63.
> 
> Why do I have a lot of hardlinks? Because distributed version control
> systems like darcs or hg, and, to some extent, git use hardlinks when
> creating local branches of repositories to share history and patches between
> them. I have a lot of such development repositories - hence lots of
> warnings.
> 
> Now, bug #63 says that this warning should not be ignored - data corruption
> is imminent. However, specifics of the corruption are not described. My
> guess is that only one copy of the hardlinked file is backed up, so when
> restoring I would end up with just a single copy of the fire in one of the
> places - am I right?
> 
> Does this mean that boxbackup should be avoided when hardlinks are present
> or not?
> 
> 
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