Craig Barratt wrote:
> 
> Yes, taking this approach would require a very substantial rewrite.
> BackupPC would become a lot simpler.  But it also creates a significant
> issue of backward compatibility.  The only solution would be to provide
> tools that import the old BackupPC store into a new one.  That is
> possible, but would likely be very slow.

One simple thing that I've sometimes thought would be useful would be a 
way to re-create the pool links down any PC tree.  That way you could 
rsync individual pc directories to an offsite location which usually 
works OK even with -H (I suppose there is some limit..) and then 
reconstruct the pooling to reclaim the duplicate space, repeating for 
each host or new backup without ever having to deal with the size of the 
combined pool/pc tree.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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