Hi there,

On Mon, 7 Mar 2022,  Dave Sherohman wrote:

Re: Real Time View of What Is Being Copied
On 3/5/22 14:36, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
On Sat, 5 Mar 2022, Les Mikesell wrote:
Unix/Linux has something calle 'sparse' files ...

I can't remember the last time I saw a sparse file used ...

One common legitimate use case for sparse files is virtual disk images.

Ah, good point!  But nobody in his right mind would use BackupPC
to back them up directly as files, would they?

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73,
Ged.


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