On 25 February 2016 at 09:13, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/23/16 08:10, John Gamble wrote: > > > 2). Instead of simply copying across some files to the new hard disk, as > > mentioned above, would it be better, from a backup point of view, to copy > > across my entire /home directory to the new disk, rather than individual > > files? (I'm currently running Linux, with my /home directory located on > a > > separate disk partition from the operating system.) > > Tarsnap doesn't care. The deduplication will recognize duplicate data > even if > files move around. > > Needs to be the same machine key though. Nicholas
