On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 14:06, Nate Carlson wrote:
> I'm currently doing that; however, it sucks a lot more bandwidth than the
> other method would, as it's downloading files that have changed on all the
> boxes - IE, if I apply an update to OpenSSL on all the hosts, it will
> download one copy of OpenSSL for each of the boxes.
>
> If I backed up to a BackupPC server on-site, and then rsync'd
> /var/lib/backuppc on that host over to my off-site backup host after the
> nightly link process was completed, I'd only grab one copy of the changed
> file.
In theory, that should work. In practice, copying a large number
of hardlinks is very slow. How well it works will depend on
how many files/links are in the archive.
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Les Mikesell
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