On 8/28/10 1:41 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Les Mikesell<lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>  [2010.08.28.2021 
> +0200]:
>> Keep in mind that what you are wanting to happen only matters in the unusual
>> case that an exact copy exists in the pool but not in the previous backup of
>> this machine.
>
> True; but that is biting a bit: I create a large file, it gets
> backed up, and the next day I send it to my parents behind a slow
> (asymmetric) DSL link. The subsequent backup of their machine will
> then require the full file transferred back upstream.
>
> As I wrote in my previous mail, if rsync provides a way to request
> the full file checksum from the peer, then this could be a nice
> optimisation to BackupPC.

If it is one or a few files or constrained to a directory that you know you 
already have backed up locally, why not just exclude it on the remote machines?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com




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