On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 01:39, higuita <higuita AT gmx DOT net> wrote:
> Hi
>
>        i have a machine that have about 100GB of data to backup, via
> ssh+rsync, but its network connection is about 1Mb, so it will take ages
> to do even the first backup.
>
>        i already have on the backuppc server one old backup of
> that machine, done via plain rsync (not backuppc).
>
>        so my question is:
>
> Is there any way to pre-load that "big, but slow" machine backup in
> backuppc, so that it doesnt need to transfer those 100GB again on a
> full backup?
>
>        i use compression, but found no easy way to compress the
> files and put then in the cpool dir... even if i have, how to generate
> the support files? are they even required? will this even work at all!?
>
>        Does any one tried to pre-fill a backup with existent data that
> could give me some tip how to do it?
>
>        Thanks in advance!
> best regards
> higuita

I believe you may:
1- configure backup to make a backup of the 100MB on the server. Do it once.
2- after that when you run the client machine's backup, files will be
already on the pool (or cpool), and backup will be faster, smaller
transfer.

Yet to prove, though.

Regards
Luis

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