On Thu, Mar 16, 2023, at 8:59 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:53 AM Rob Sheldon <r...@robsheldon.com> wrote: > > > > Why are you assuming this is "randomly" happening? Any time an identical > > file exists in more than one place on the client filesystem, there will be > > a collision. This is common in lots of cases. Desktop environments > > frequently have duplicated files scattered around. I used BackupPC for > > website backups; my chain length was approximately equal to the number of > > WordPress sites I was hosting. > > > Identical files are not collisions to backuppc - they are de-duplicated.
Hey Les, Thanks for the heads-up. Your message prompted me to pull the current codebase and do some grepping around in it to better understand this. I believed that the MD5 hash was the mechanism used for deduplication, but that could have been wrong at any point, V3 or otherwise. The mailing list tyrant's reply however made me realize I don't actually need to be chasing this down just right now, so I won't be following up on this further. I was dormant on this list for quite a few years -- which probably contributed to my misinformation -- and I suddenly have remembered why. :-) _</email>_ Rob Sheldon Contract software developer, devops, security, technical lead _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
