On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Jimmy Thrasibule
<thrasibule.jimmy AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> My main problem is that I also have some external servers (spread over
> the Internet) to backup. In that case using as less as bandwidth as
> possible can be useful. As I understood, BackupPC downloads all the data
> and do deduplication on the server side. A tool doing dedpulication on
> the client side would be better to preserve bandwidth.

If you are using rsync or rsyncd, only the file differences are
transferred.  The server will reconstruct a full copy of the file from
the previous instance plus the differences, then do file-level de-dup
by linking to any other copies of the same content.   For windows
targets you'll have to install cygwin rsync.

> Question:
>
> I don't want to backup backups and have incremental backup of
> incremental backups. This will make restoration harder.
>
> What is the best way to get those files? Forget BackupPC and use rsync?
> Use BackupPC and disable incremental backups?

Use backuppc with rsync or rsynd as the xfer method.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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