Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > I agree with your need but good luck since there is a vociferous group > of contributors here who think the solution is always ZFS or general > block copy. They can't seem to understand that not only is there a > broad base of users who would like a file-level backup approach but > that actually the known structure of the pool and pc trees makes that > possible in O(n log n) time even without making any changes to the > current BackupPC program. > > I am happy to help with suggesting and debugging algorithms and with > testing. I am probably not the right one to code such a program since > I have no experience with coding for speed and my results would > (hopefully) work but would likely be more of a brute-force hack. > Holger has kindly promised to create scripts incorporating algorithms that would be able to backup a backuppc server with a file-based approach. I have asked that he incorporate the pooling feature. If / when he provides the scripts, I will contact you to help me with testing them.
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