On 12/22/2010 1:06 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
>
>  > The more I think about it the more I understand how much "magic" must be
>  > going on in the backuppc backend!
>
> Actually not that much. Much of the magic is actually in rsync; the only
> real "magic" in BackupPC is that it can detect when a "new" file is
> actually the same as any other "existing" file and eliminate the
> duplicated space.

And under the covers, the fact that the server side's perl rsync 
implementation works with a compressed local copy while exchanging block 
checksums with a remote native rsync and it's uncompressed version of 
the file...

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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