Re: [BackupPC-users] Storing Identical Files?

Hi, thanks for your ideas. So unless you have either an md5sum collision (extremely unlikely unless creating them intentionally -- as in (number of files)*2^-128 unlikely), you shouldn't have any files in your pool with an underscore in them. Under pool/ I do not have any files with an

Re: [BackupPC-users] Storing Identical Files?

Dumb question. They aren’t encrypted on the drive are they? Thanks, Greg Harris On Feb 11, 2023, at 8:49 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: It does and in fact almost has to since pool files are stored according to their md5sum. So unless you have either an md5sum

Re: [BackupPC-users] Storing Identical Files?

It does and in fact almost has to since pool files are stored according to their md5sum. So unless you have either an md5sum collision (extremely unlikely unless creating them intentionally -- as in (number of files)*2^-128 unlikely), you shouldn't have any files in your pool with an underscore in

[BackupPC-users] Storing Identical Files?

Hi, I am using BackupPC now for years. It is really great. Meanwhile I use v4.4.0 on Debian. As far as I understood it os very efficient in storing identical data. Now I noticed something which let me doubt this. I guess there is an explanation. So what do I have? I have two clients which