Hello,

I had troubles using the rsync(d) method (crashed my server) so I used a 
workaround: create a sshfs mount and "locally" backup its files.  To prevent 
empty backups, I changed the ping command to ssh user@hostname whoami to 
emulate a response if successful, or return no ping if not connected. I figured 
that out the long way because I had a few empty backups (the mounting directory 
was empty).

However, using this method, I also found out that backuppc was copying EVERY 
files from the host, even on incremental backups, because (I assume) it needed 
to compare locally the files before updating the ones in the last backup.

So, my 2 questions are, is there a way to script a way to compare the files 
before the copy, to make a way to skip files that are not needed in the tar 
method, and is there a way to tell backuppc to NOT start if the mounted 
directory is empty to prevent empty backups?

I'm using backuppc 3.0.0 on ubuntu, and the hosts are using freesshd on Windows 
for now.

Thanks,

Phil

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