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Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> Indeed (and to keep quite on topic), perhaps rather than hardlink trees,
> LVM snapshots would be even more space efficient.  Maybe that is what
> this thread has been about.  I just jumped in.  Apologies if it was.

No, I'm using snapshots to make rsync backups onto removable drives (so 
the hardlink tree method won't work for me either).