Re: [BackupPC-users] Using --checksum instead of --ignore-times for full backup in BackupPC 3.3.1

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Rahul Amaram wrote: > > 1. What I am trying to achieve: transfer lesser traffic for full-backups. My > understanding is that --checksum transfers the file content only if there > are changes unlike --ignore-times but there are

[BackupPC-users] Using --checksum instead of --ignore-times for full backup in BackupPC 3.3.1

I am running backuppc in Debian. I am currently using backuppc 3.3.1, rsync 3.1.2 and libfile-rsync-perl 0.74. I have changed the option --ignore-times to --checksum in Xfer/Rsync.pm for full backup. The idea is that for full-backups, I prefer for files to compared using --checksum rather than