This is my semi-regular post to declare, once again, that I like hard links.

I WANT to do incremental backups using rsync's built-in hardlinking capability, but the HDD that I have been backing up to is formatted NTFS and so far I haven't succeeded in getting rsync to do hard links on it.

I tested via ln command to verify the NTFS HDD supports hard links.

I can also make hard links with rsync on my tiny 16 GB ext4 optane drive.

I suspect human error.

#HardLinks #Linux #rsync