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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 -- # |