If you have the same file locally, why not just exclude it from the 
remote backup? You'll still have the local backup and wont waste the 
bandwidth.

Nick.

On 1/14/2009 8:13 AM, Christian Völker wrote:
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> Yohoo!
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> I'm having an issue with my BackupPC.
>
> One of the machines to be backed up is a remote box. Unfortunately the
> BackupPC box only has very limited external download bandwith (384kb/s).
>
> Usually (and thanks to rsync!) this isn't an issue.
>
> But now there is a 4GB file on the remote box- and the broadband
> connection is dropped every 24h hours (f!ck Telekom), so any running
> backup process will fail.
>
> This means unless there is really no traffic on the connection a backup
> will never succeed- am I right? Looks like, because I'm watchingthis now
> for a couple of days.
>
> Whatever, because I have this file locally as well (same file, md5sum
> and times are the same!) can I "insert" tthis file somehow into my
> backupPC under /var/lib so it recognizes it as "already there"and does
> not try to backup all the time?
>
> Thanks for further ideas.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Christian
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