hmm, i rather expect the pool check doesn't follow all the transfers,
rather is interleaved with the transfers, if i'm right the temporary
ballooning you describe should not occur other than a file at a time.
On 2010-12-06, Ed McDonagh <ed.mcdonagh AT rmh.nhs DOT uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:47 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
>> Hi! I've got two servers, each around a TB, that I'm backing up with
>> BackupPC. (No, not for "real" backups, but to be able to not have to
>> recall tapes when someone deletes a file. Darn users.) I'm planning on
>> merging the two Windows servers into one Linux box serving via Samba.
>> Assuming pooling works the way I think it does, there shouldn't be any
>> significant increase in needed disk space, should there?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>
> I think you are right, in the medium term.
>
> In the short term, if the host is different then everything will be new
> and will be transferred over to the backup machine.
>
> Once there, it will be checked against the pool and each file will be
> replaced with a hard link to the pooled version from the original
> server, therefore you'll eventually get all the space back to what it
> was with two servers.
>
> Ed
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