On Saturday 28 April 2007 19:20, Jason Day wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:30:00PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > > When doing backups, I noticed that everytime a backup directory is > > created holding a complete set of files. Unmodified files are not > > fetched from the Palm, but copied from the previous backup. > > > > Is it possible to link unmodified files to the previous backup instead > > of copying them, to save space? > > Are you using jpilot-backup plugin, or J-Pilot's built-in backup (sync > using the backup button instead of the sync button)? Jpilot-backup > keeps a user-defined number of backup directories, and creates hard > links to unmodified files. If you're not using it, you can get it from > my website (link is in my sig) if you're interested. > > I'm not sure how the built-in backups work. > > Jason > Jason, There's a problem with the jpilot-backup plugin in the SuSE 10.0 distro. After installing the pkg (0.51-2) and restarting JPilot (0.99.8), the "Archives" field contains a repeating decimal of hundreds of characters. The field is repopulated with the same value after clearing it. -TR -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: jpilot-backup_suse10.png Type: image/png Size: 48143 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.jpilot.org/pipermail/jpilot/attachments/20070429/f4e81c23/attachment.png
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