On 02/24/16 15:34, Nicholas Lee wrote: > On 25 February 2016 at 09:13, Colin Percival <[email protected] > <mailto:[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.
Right, I should have been clearer about that. Every machine is its own deduplication domain. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
