Daniel Carrera wrote at about 19:53:32 +0200 on Friday, May 22, 2009:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I just started taking a look at BackupPC. It looks really good.
 > 
 > I'm looking for a backup solution for a home network (two Linux PCs). My 
 > current solution is a simple script using rsync and hard links to create 
 > the appearance of daily backups. What got my attention about BackupPC is 
 > that it seems to do roughly the same thing, but with some extra features 
 > like compression. So now I have a few questions:
 > 

Not sure if you yet realize this, but BackupPC actually does
more than just hard links and compression. Specifically,

1. It has the notion of a "pool" so that common files between multiply
   backed up computers are only copied once. When you have multiple
   Windows and/or Linux computers, this saves a lot of backup space.

2. Incrementals only contain hard links for new files vs. your system
   where every day you create a new hard link for every single
   file.


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