Hi Holger,

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:11:43PM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote:

> > I'm not sure though, how the file name is derived,
> 
> It's in the docs. Up to 256 KB of file contents (from the first 1 MB) and the
> file length are taken into account, so it's quite easy to produce hash clashes
> if you want to: take a file > 1 MB and change the last byte. BackupPC resolves
> them and they're probably infrequent enough not to be a problem (and you get
> to see whether they are on the status page). Taking the length (of the
> uncompressed file) into account avoids things like growing logfiles from
> causing problems.

Thank you for the clarification!

Tino, hever having bothered about that before. ;-)

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