On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:55:35AM +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote:

> Does backuppc support the --sparse flag for rsyncd remote backups -
> searching for answers led me to 'probably not' in an old post.

I don't know for sure, but I doubt it since BackupPC_dump will probably
just produce zeroes and compress them.

> If it is supported, any benefit of using it with my famous database backup
> dumps?

No, you wouldn't benefit since your database dumps will probably not
contain long chains of zero bytes.

Tino.

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