David Birnbaum wrote:

>>
>> One approach is to use a VPN connection to the remote site.  Openvpn 
>> has an option to do keepalives on the line - and to do lzo compression 
>> on the data.
> 
> These files are often compressed already - for example, one client has 
> very large MP3 files that contain multi-hour recorded conferences.  
> Being able to restart midstream would be a huge help.
> 

I think the only quick fix would be to have additional disk space 
somewhere on the backuppc local side and 'rsync -PaH --delete' to make a 
snapshot to it first, then let backuppc back that up for a history.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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