Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de [2011.04.20.2001 +0200]: We'd all like to be able to choose an existing *pool file* as reference - this would save us transfers of *any* file already existing in the pool (e.g. from other hosts). Unfortunately, this is technically not possible

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-20 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, martin f krafft wrote on 2011-04-17 16:43:07 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?]: also sprach John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com [2011.04.17.1625 +0200]: In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be transferred again, completely

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-20 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Holger Parplies wrote at about 20:01:28 +0200 on Wednesday, April 20, 2011: 4.) There *was* an attempt to write a specialized BackupPC client (BackupPCd) quite a while back. I believe this was given up for lack of human resources. I always found this matter rather interesting, but

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 15:43 -0400, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: Well... you could write a script (or even one-liner) to do the same name change (modulof-mangling) on the last backup... this would be pretty easy if your name change is well-defined... What about the file attributes stored in

[BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread martin f krafft
Dear list, we are facing a policy change requiring people to rename data files in a trivial way (replace ':' with '-'). In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be transferred again, completely, right? Or is there a way in which I can prepare the server for this change and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread John Rouillard
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 09:23:07AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: we are facing a policy change requiring people to rename data files in a trivial way (replace ':' with '-'). In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be transferred again, completely, right? Correct. Or

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Rouillard rouilj-backu...@renesys.com [2011.04.17.1625 +0200]: In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be transferred again, completely, right? Correct. Actually, I just did a test, using iptables to count bytes between the two hosts, and then renamed

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/17/11 2:23 AM, martin f krafft wrote: Dear list, we are facing a policy change requiring people to rename data files in a trivial way (replace ':' with '-'). In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be transferred again, completely, right? Or is there a way in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-04-17 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
martin f krafft wrote at about 09:23:07 +0200 on Sunday, April 17, 2011: Dear list, we are facing a policy change requiring people to rename data files in a trivial way (replace ':' with '-'). In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be transferred again,

[BackupPC-users] Renaming files causes retransfer?

2011-02-20 Thread martin f krafft
Dear list, we are facing a policy change requiring people to rename data files in a trivial way (replace ':' with '-'). In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be transferred again, completely, right? Or is there a way in which I can prepare the server for this change and