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| author | Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de> | 2020-12-24 02:41:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de> | 2020-12-26 00:04:24 +0100 |
| commit | f75c561e07aeb19838231106e542f1a64ed0c6f0 (patch) | |
| tree | f1f73bdda30fcce57514affbc89f02211be7f04f /docs/usage | |
| parent | 3a828bea0b0211e0dc4afd5f33a1f0e286806127 (diff) | |
docs: add another case of attempted hardlink usage
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/usage/general/file-systems.rst.inc | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/usage/general/file-systems.rst.inc b/docs/usage/general/file-systems.rst.inc index 32b85deba..60b7f46f9 100644 --- a/docs/usage/general/file-systems.rst.inc +++ b/docs/usage/general/file-systems.rst.inc @@ -26,4 +26,6 @@ and readable after one of the failures mentioned above occurred, run it should be a move (not a copy) operation, and in case of a directory it should fail if the destination exists and is not an empty directory, since this is used for locking. -- Hardlinks are needed for :ref:`borg_upgrade` (if ``--inplace`` option is not used) +- Hardlinks are needed for :ref:`borg_upgrade` (if ``--inplace`` option is not used). + Also hardlinks are used for more safe and secure file updating (e.g. of the repo + config file), but the code tries to work also if hardlinks are not supported. |