On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Michael Stowe
<mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org> 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.
>
> Does each of your clients actually have a lot of duplicate files?  This
> doesn't seem like it would be particularly useful to most people.

And more to the point, do they have duplicate files that change in
duplicate ways so the difference would matter more than once?  After
you get your initial copy, rsync is only going to xfer the changes.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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