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authorEinhard Leichtfuß <alguien@respiranto.de>2026-06-13 16:16:45 +0200
committerEinhard Leichtfuß <alguien@respiranto.de>2026-06-13 16:16:45 +0200
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ This is intended as a short, rather high-level, documentation.
links between differently dated backups of that file tree to reduce space
requirements while keeping the data in a simple form.
- The destination file system is usually different to the on the source file
+ The destination file system is usually different to the one the source file
tree resides on, in particular, it may be on a different host. The rsync(1)
command line program serves as backend. Therefore, at least one of the
source and destination need to be local.
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ method.
`- In particular though, the source file system needs to be writable. This
problem may possibly be circumvented using bind mounts.
+ * Deleting regular files on the source file system does not free up space.
+ Corresponding files in /.backup may safely be deleted to mitigate this
+ problem.
+
# -- REMOTE METHOD CALLS -- #