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On 07.07.2010 16:57, Kameleon wrote:
>>> Yet what I have in mind would be "don't transfer a file if we already
>>> have it in the pool", thus drastically reducing the amount of data
>>> transferred over the net.
>>>
>>> IIRC, the rsync protocol per se should just allow that, but I am unsure
>>> if BackupPC utilizes it at that level.
>>>
>>> So is this "transfer minimization" doable with BackupPC?
>>
>> Rsync compares only against the last full backup tree on the same host,
>> transferring the differences. Once you get started it will work the way you
>> want, but each new machine will transfer everything on the first run and if
>> the
>> same file is added on many machines, it will be copied separately from each,
>> then merged in the pool. One thing you might do to to help get started
>> would
>> be to take the server on-site to each office for the first full run, then
>> move
>> to its permanent location. Or if you have the bandwidth, perhaps you can
>> do
>> the initial run over a weekend.
Thanks to everyone for the clearance.
While not 100% the thing I had in mind, I think I can live with the
backup server travelling around a bit for the initial backups then.
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