Hi quick question, do you know if it's ok to rm -rf an incremental backup folder?
Eg one of our backup servers is smaller than the other and Cpanel do not allow us to control what goes to what additional destination.
Therefore we sometimes go in and rm -rf /xxxx/monthly/2019-**-** to get rid of some older monthly backups on one server.
I realise incremental works with hard links and we are deleting the oldest folders which probably contain original data. Does rm -rf respect hard links, for eg if some newer monthly folders are linking to older unchanged files?
Eg one of our backup servers is smaller than the other and Cpanel do not allow us to control what goes to what additional destination.
Therefore we sometimes go in and rm -rf /xxxx/monthly/2019-**-** to get rid of some older monthly backups on one server.
I realise incremental works with hard links and we are deleting the oldest folders which probably contain original data. Does rm -rf respect hard links, for eg if some newer monthly folders are linking to older unchanged files?