On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Bob Proulx <bob AT proulx DOT com> wrote:
>
> I can certainly symlink from one location to the other.  Have done so.
> But wanting to have a better understanding I am going to poke into the
> problem a little more.  Because I would like to be able to recover the
> now existing backups and have them linked into the cpool to save disk
> space.

If you are using rsync, copies that are unchanged across runs will be
linked to each other, but without the link in cpool you won't get
pooling of duplicates on different machines.  And normal operations
won't re-create that link unless the file is new/changed.  The tool
here might do it:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=BackupPC_FixLinks

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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