On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:06:53AM -0500, barry wrote:
> Looking for a good way to do a seed copy import into backuppc. I
> want to be able to get the bulk of backup data on a usb disk then
> import it into backuppc from said disk and resume rsyncs without
> copying all the data in over the wire. Is this possible? Thanks

Yes: copy it to your backup server host, and then tell BackupPC to
backup those files *on the server host*.  This will put them in the
pool, which means they won't be retransferred.  After a couple of
backups on the client are done, delete them on the server.

-Robin

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