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Can I delete previous backups, without affecting following backups, Since TimeShift (RSync) make increamental backups.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank You. Still got to learn a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If you look at the output of ls -l , you'll see a number on the left which tells you how the pointer counter. Folders are usually rather high, as both the parent folder, and any child folders point to it.

For files it counts the number of hardlinks.