On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Thanks Les. So my snip above does hold when trying to conserve
>> bandwidth (say over a WAN), but at the potential cost of increasing
>> the time the backup session requires. In a high-speed local
>> environment, processing time can be reduce
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:52 PM, wrote:
>
>> The distinction is between the contents of the file and the directory
>> entries pointing to it. The contents of hardlinked files are all the
>> same, but rsync doesn't know anything about the hashed filenames for
>> the pool links. It strictly fol
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:03 PM, wrote:
>> it only makes sense to compare to the newest one, since in BPCs storage
>> model there isn't any benefit to distinguish between "incremental" vs
>> "differential" sets.
> The distinction is bet
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:03 PM, wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:
>> Well, actually the comparison is done against the last backup of a lower
>> level.
>
> Actually actually from my understanding their isn't any difference
> at all in BackupPC's filesystem between
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> Well, actually the comparison is done against the last backup of a lower
> level.
Actually actually from my understanding their isn't any difference
at all in BackupPC's filesystem between the two if it hasn't been
modified. In fact you ca
On Friday 23 December 2011 17:54:40 Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Rahul Amaram wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a query about file transfer while taking backups. I understand
> > that backuppc uses de-duplication i.e. only a single copy of the file is
> > stored even if multiple
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Rahul Amaram wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a query about file transfer while taking backups. I understand
> that backuppc uses de-duplication i.e. only a single copy of the file is
> stored even if multiple copies of it exist on different machines.
> However, what I would
Hi,
I have a query about file transfer while taking backups. I understand
that backuppc uses de-duplication i.e. only a single copy of the file is
stored even if multiple copies of it exist on different machines.
However, what I would like to know is when a file is transferred after
being backe
