Immediately. If a file matches a pre-existing pool file, it is not entered into the pool, so it is not saved.
Christian Völker via BackupPC-users wrote at about 22:24:23 +0200 on Wednesday, July 3, 2024: > Hi, > > as far as I remember v4 stores same file from different hosts only once > in /var/lib/backuppc, right? > > My question now is if BackuPPC recons the duplicate file already during > backup or later when some maintenance task is running? > > On my storage I have around 500GB available space but I want to backup a > host with 700G data. But this data is already backed up from another > host. So when backing up, does it immediately save space or later? > > Thanks! > > /KNEBB > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
