Hi i have a machine that have about 100GB of data to backup, via ssh+rsync, but its network connection is about 1Mb, so it will take ages to do even the first backup.
i already have on the backuppc server one old backup of that machine, done via plain rsync (not backuppc). so my question is: Is there any way to pre-load that "big, but slow" machine backup in backuppc, so that it doesnt need to transfer those 100GB again on a full backup? i use compression, but found no easy way to compress the files and put then in the cpool dir... even if i have, how to generate the support files? are they even required? will this even work at all!? Does any one tried to pre-fill a backup with existent data that could give me some tip how to do it? Thanks in advance! best regards higuita -- Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. -- Hermann Goering, Nazi and war criminal, 1883-1946
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