Theodore Ts’o 1/12/2009

Wanted: Incremental Backup Solutions that Use a Database

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The article is a technical request for open-source incremental backup solutions that utilize a database instead of hard-link directories. It explains the performance and memory issues with hard-link-based backups, such as excessive inodes and slow filesystem checks, and argues that a database-backed approach is more efficient and scalable for enterprise-level systems.

Wanted: Incremental Backup Solutions that Use a Database

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