On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Jimmy Thrasibule <thrasibule.ji...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over > the Internet) to backup. In that case using as less as bandwidth as > possible can be useful. As I understood, BackupPC downloads all the data > and do deduplication on the server side. A tool doing dedpulication on > the client side would be better to preserve bandwidth.
If you are using rsync or rsyncd, only the file differences are transferred. The server will reconstruct a full copy of the file from the previous instance plus the differences, then do file-level de-dup by linking to any other copies of the same content. For windows targets you'll have to install cygwin rsync. > Question: > > I don't want to backup backups and have incremental backup of > incremental backups. This will make restoration harder. > > What is the best way to get those files? Forget BackupPC and use rsync? > Use BackupPC and disable incremental backups? Use backuppc with rsync or rsynd as the xfer method. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ 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/