John Rouillard wrote at about 20:55:14 +0000 on Wednesday, April 8, 2009:
 > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:29:12PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
 > > On 04/08 10:19 , Boniforti Flavio wrote:
 > > > 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?
 > > 
 > > Backuppc uncompresses the files in the course of comparing the old ones to
 > > the new ones; or else does it by comparing stored checksums. So it's very
 > > efficient about not re-transferring files that haven't changed. 
 > 
 > If I understood the OP he already has these files on his backup server
 > from another backup system. He wants to import these files into the
 > filestore of backuppc rather than having backuppc have to transfer
 > them all over again.
 > 
 > I have wanted to do the same and having a BackupPC_compress to
 > compliment BackupPC_zcat would be a real win.
 > 
It's quite easy to do. I have written various stubs that do some or
all of that.

 > The BackupPC_compress would compress the file as though it was
 > processed into ROOT/pc/hostname/... tree. then I could just copy the
 > file into place and manually create a NewFileList file and run
 > BackupPC_link over the new tree to get the files in the pool (or use
 > the donated BackupPC_fixlinks).
 > 
 > For extra credit a: 
 > 
 >   BackupPC_import -H hostname -s share directory
 > 
 > that takes a file tree located at directory and imports that filetree
 > as though it was a backup done for the share "share" on hostname would
 > be great as well. Maybe a Google Summer Of Code idea?

More like Afternoon of Code - I mean it's not very hard.

 > 
 > In the absense of those commands:
 > 
 >   http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+import+data+for+a+backup
 > 
 > or using google to search for backuppc import should provide some
 > ideas.
 > 
 > -- 
 >                              -- rouilj
 > 
 > John Rouillard       System Administrator
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