BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?

2009-04-08 16:28:40
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How do the files look like when transferred?
From: Boniforti Flavio <flavio AT piramide DOT ch>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:19:41 +0200


Il 08.04.09 22:11, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> ha scritto:

> They are compressed if you leave the default setting enabled in your
> configuration, and all duplicate copies of the same file (whether found
> on the same target or not) are hardlinked to one pooled instance.  That
> means that backing up multiple instances of similar hosts or keeping a
> long history of backups will only use addition space for the differences
>   (plus a small amount for the directory structure).

OK, so your suggestion is actually to leave them compressed, right?
If so, what may I do to avoid re-syncing of many GB of data?


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