> Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > Crashplan does backup this way, but you can't restore a sparse file > > sparsely from a crashplan backup. > > Restores are rare, right? So it should not be terribly inconvenient to > use a workaround, such as the technique for restoring sparseness to > gzipped files (by piping to "cp --sparse=always"):
I didn't know you could do that. In fact, I just tested this with a couple small files (200M) and it worked perfectly. Yes, it would be inconvenient if you had to restore this way, but yes, it would be possible. And that's good news. Thanks for that suggestion. One caveat to beware though: You would need the empty space on your HD to be at least the sum of the apparent sparse volume size, plus the used size within the sparse volume. Because you'd first need to restore the un-sparse file, and then while you copy it, it would consume again, all the nonzero space inside the volume, before you could rm the un-sparse file. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
