Dan Pritts writes:

> rsync has a sparse-file mode, but backuppc doesn't enable it. 
> Is this an omission or intentional?

Both.  The server (BackupPC side) doesn't use native rsync.
The code mimics rsync, and not all the features are implemented.
The notable omissions are hardlinks, compression and spare files.

The next version will support hardlinks.

Craig


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