Tim writes: > BackupPC seems to be working great, however even on a fresh initial > full backup, it reports there are existing files. How can that be if > it's the first backup? Thanks for the info.
There are two places duplicates are detected. Initially there are no files in the pool, so all files are considered "new" (and in fact a complete copy of all files, even duplicates, will appear in the very first backup). The BackupPC_link phase then adds those new files to the pool. During this phase, any duplicate files will count as "existing" files, and all duplicates will be turned into hardlinks to the common pool file. On subsequent backups the existing files will be detected during the actual backup operation, which is the more common place for duplicates to be detected. (Due to race conditions it is not possible for each backup to add to the pool on-the-fly; that's why it's done by just a single process.) But every new backup could contain multiple copies of a new file, which is then caught by BackupPC_link. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
