If you have the same file locally, why not just exclude it from the remote backup? You'll still have the local backup and wont waste the bandwidth.
Nick. On 1/14/2009 8:13 AM, Christian Völker wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yohoo! > > I'm having an issue with my BackupPC. > > One of the machines to be backed up is a remote box. Unfortunately the > BackupPC box only has very limited external download bandwith (384kb/s). > > Usually (and thanks to rsync!) this isn't an issue. > > But now there is a 4GB file on the remote box- and the broadband > connection is dropped every 24h hours (f!ck Telekom), so any running > backup process will fail. > > This means unless there is really no traffic on the connection a backup > will never succeed- am I right? Looks like, because I'm watchingthis now > for a couple of days. > > Whatever, because I have this file locally as well (same file, md5sum > and times are the same!) can I "insert" tthis file somehow into my > backupPC under /var/lib so it recognizes it as "already there"and does > not try to backup all the time? > > Thanks for further ideas. > > > Greetings > > Christian > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJbQP00XNIYlAXmzsRAtJRAKDAEA6nWqd2zmhXl7cGUSJGZS67hgCfTxc+ > YpISA/asWOSG2eLnVySzS0Q= > =8hVz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
