By the way, sorry for the tone of my previous mail.
I realized afterwords that I came across as condescending.
I think, I get a bit too obsessed with an idea or mindset sometimes.

Thanks for bearing with my noob questions and attitude. And I do need
to study BackupPC more before making ignorant assumptions :-(

For my immediate problem, I'm probably going to switch back to
rdiff-backup, but give it the --no-hard-links option, to reduce memory
usage. I totally missed that before. And I seriously don't need to
preserve /usr/bin/ etc hardlinks, or I can generate a list of files to
hardlink together (after restoration) separately.

Longer term, probably switching over to BackupPC is better. I'll
probably start by migrating some of the backups in the near future.
Still not too sure about the DBX mail files, have to consider that
further. Maybe it's not as big an issue as I think it's going to be,
especially if I'm not keeping every single daily version of DBX files
for the past X years.

David.

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