martin f krafft wrote at about 09:23:07 +0200 on Sunday, April 17, 2011:
 > Dear list,
 > 
 > we are facing a policy change requiring people to rename data files
 > in a trivial way (replace ':' with '-').
 > 
 > In terms of backuppc, this means that the files will have to be
 > transferred again, completely, right?
 > 
 > Or is there a way in which I can prepare the server for this change
 > and prevent the completely unnecessary transfer of terabytes of
 > data, just so backuppc can find out that the data haven't changed?
 > 
 > Thanks,

Well... you could write a script (or even one-liner) to do the same name change 
(modulof-mangling) on the last backup... this would be pretty easy if your
name change is well-defined... you might even be able to use the
'rename' Unix function

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