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Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does backuppc transfer files already in the pool

2010-08-28 16:24:25
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Why does backuppc transfer files already in the pool
From: martin f krafft <madduck AT madduck DOT net>
To: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:22:26 +0200
also sprach Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> [2010.08.28.2151 +0200]:
> 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?

It happens regularly.

Don't you think BackupPC could be optimised *iff* rsyncp could ask
the peer mid-transfer to calculate the whole file checksum (it could
just ask that anyway, but that would increase the client load)?

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