Comment on When using rsync to backup my /home folder to an external 1TB SSD, I run out of space, how??
riskable@programming.dev 1 day ago
Simple: Exfat does not support symbolic links. So every file that’s just a symbolic link on your btrfs filesystem is getting copied in full (the link is being resolved) to your Exfat drive.
Solution don’t use Exfat. For backups from btrfs, I recommend using btrfs with compression enabled.
Also don’t forget to rebalance your btrfs partitions regularly to reclaim lost space! Also, delete old snapshots!
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
That makes a lot of sense. I can’t reformat the external SSD though, since it has a bunch of other files and needs to be used by my family (who are mostly Windows users)