also sprach Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de> [2011.04.20.2001 +0200]: > We'd all like to be able to choose an existing *pool file* as > reference - this would save us transfers of *any* file already > existing in the pool (e.g. from other hosts). Unfortunately, this > is technically not possible without a specialized BackupPC client. […] > I hope that clears things up a bit.
Yes, thanks! also sprach Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <backu...@kosowsky.org> [2011.04.21.0707 +0200]: > Holger Parplies wrote at about 20:01:28 +0200 on Wednesday, April 20, 2011: > > 4.) There *was* an attempt to write a specialized BackupPC client > (BackupPCd) > > quite a while back. I believe this was given up for lack of human > > resources. I always found this matter rather interesting, but I've > never > > gotten around to even taking a look at the code, let alone do anything > > with it. > > > Interesting... it might be worthwhile to revisit this in the context > of the new BackupPC ver 4. In particular, with ver 4 using full file > md5sums (and potentially maybe other sha checksums), one could imagine > an rsync extension that in the absence of a matching file, would first > compute the local md5sum and transmit it to the BackupPC server to > look for an exact pool match... Either that, or maybe it would be possible to work on extending the rsync protocol, so that with a future version, it would be possible to transfer additional data alongside. -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "it is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned." -- oscar wilde spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net
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