Package: backup-manager Version: 0.5.7-1 Severity: wishlist
Some of my system directories remain unchanged for long periods of time, so subsequent backup tarballs are byte-for-byte identical. Would it be possible to eliminate such duplicates? At the very least, replace them with hardlinks. A more advanced scheme might detect a duplication and replace the older of two matching files with a softlink to the newer one, so that e.g. CD backups could benefit from the same elimination of duplicates. (Note that always replacing the _older_ of the identical files with a link reduces the risk of accidentally deleting the archive and then being stuck with dangling links instead of a backup) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages backup-manager depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii gzip 1.3.5-9 The GNU compression utility -- debconf information excluded --ED74657414F.1115959246/localhost.localdomain-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
