Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?
> 

Simple way: take the backuppc server to the target location for the 
first run.  Not-so-simple way: re-create the directory structure under 
the rsyncd-shared trees on a local machine with your existing backup. 
Set $Conf{ClientNameAlias} to point to this duplicate for the first 
complete run, then remove it.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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