Thanx much!  This is the answer I was hoping for.

Skip


On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:23 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Skip Guenter wrote:
> > 
> > I am looking at installing backuppc.  I have one server that contains a
> > mirror (RAID 1) drive.  This device (/dev/md0) contains a series of
> > directories that are the mount point for several 'disk-less' clients
> > (nfs mount point).  Across these directories is a great deal of
> > duplication (OS images).  When I backup the server containing this drive
> > will "pooling" be in effect for the multitude of duplicates across these
> > directories all on the same machine (from that servers perspective)?
> 
> Yes, all files with duplicate content are linked to a common pooled copy 
> regardless of where they were found. It doesn't matter whether or not 
> they were on the same target - you'd also get the same effect from 
> backing up the clients individually.  The files will all be copied over 
> the first time even with rsync but the duplicates won't take additional 
> storage space.
> 


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