Hi all, I must admit I agree with Bruno on this matter, and am personally VERY interested in seeing such a feature in BackupPC, but I don't think it's worth my while forgoing the other excellent features of BackupPC by using another solution such as rdiff-backup to gain it. Under certain usage scenarios such as the one Bruno describes differential storage can give massive storage space benefits. Another example is those working on digital video and image editing: enormous files that may have many GB of history that doesn't change despite other parts of the file changing or being added to. As Bruno says another advantage is competition with commercial products, as it's a listed feature for many of them.
It is in fact mentioned in the roadmap at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/roadMap.html , right down the bottom, as "speculative" due to the apparent large amount of effort needed to get it working. Seems as though that roadmap is a little out of date though- I think at least the first two items are now done right? Still, even the 15-20% storage gain on an average large pool mentioned there isn't to be taken THAT lightly ;-) Adam Swift ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
