On 8/28/10 3:22 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> 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.

But if it is under your control, you might arrange it to be under an excluded 
directory.

> 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)?

You are working with a stock rsync on the other end, so I don't think that's an 
option - and rsync's checksums aren't the same as the hash used to build the 
pool filenames.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com




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