BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory

2009-06-09 09:09:18
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Change Archive Directory
From: Les Mikesell <les AT futuresource DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:05:52 -0500
Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 06:44, Holger Parplies<wbppc AT parplies DOT de> wrote:
>> yes, but however you fix it, you should be aware that you won't get pooling
>> for already completed backups. Until they expire, they will contain
>> independent copies of files. What's worse, rsync backups will hardlink 'same'
>> files to the reference backup file (which will be outside the pool as long as
>> it remains unchanged).
> 
> Can you use a script such as hardlink.py to create hardlinks out of
> identical files in the BackupPC repository? Would that fix that issue
> without the need to start over?
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/hardlinkpy/

That might help regain some space, but you need an additional link in 
the pool or cpool directory with a name that is a hash of the file 
contents to be used to match up subsequent duplicate copies.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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