backing up shadow files with rsync?

[Tim]

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 13:45 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Rsnapshot is just a useful front-end to rsync. It keeps snapshots of
> an entire tree ordered by backup generation (using hard links to avoid
> duplicating files).

If you link, instead of duplicating, then you only have one backup of a
file.  So, if that backup has a problem...?

Did I miss something obvious?

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