Q: Backup problems due to Photos hard link strategies
Is anyone having problems with backups due to the Photos hard link strategies? My Carbon Copy Cloner backups seem to be confused and can't fit 1 TB source drive onto 1 TB backup anymore---even with Safety Net turned off.
Also hard to tell if Backblaze is resolving the hard links in some way and thus backing up two large files rather than one. The file sizes it indicates seems to reflect this.
Posted on May 30, 2015 6:44 AM
A further update.
I sent my logs to Bombich software and they show that the problem was not between Photos and CCC, but rather with File Transporter software update and CCC. We've tested that hypothesis and it proves true. Of course turning off the network connection disconnects from File Transporter and so it is a workaround.
I expect either or both companies will fix this for everyone in the near future.
Hope this helps anyone else having the same set of circumstances and resulting problems. If I had noticed the problem on a weekday, it might have been resolved much more quickly, as Bombich was quite responsive come Monday.
Posted on Jun 1, 2015 6:22 PM