Ged, > BackupPC shines, I think, in less well-constrained situations. > > Given the boundaries I wonder if you wouldn't do better with something > simple like a script which runs 'find' to find the files to be backed > up, plain vanilla rsync to do the actual transfers, and de-duplication > provided (if necessary) by one of several filesystems which offer it.
We looked at a lot of different solutions, and BackupPC seemed best. I really like it. I’m not sure that any script we set up could do any better job finding the files to back up, than rsync via BackupPC with the file-size-constraint option specified. If I understand it correctly, incrementals DO NOT read the entire file contents and compute a checksum, but work strictly off of file modification date, so finding the files requires only reading the directories and not reading the files themselves, right? Ted _______________________________________________ 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/
