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

[Dmitry Astapov]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Thomas Capricelli <orzel at freehackers.org>wrote:

>   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,
>

Ok. I found this thread from 2008, which seems highly relevant:
http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/boxbackup/2008-April/004338.html

Am I right that at least the following info in that thread (mail +
followups) is still current: no hardlinks, no directory mtimes fixup on
restore?

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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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