BackupPC is installed and working great for new hosts. Is there a way to take 
the hundreds of GB from old hosts that exist on the backup server and import 
them into the BackupPC storage pool? 

The old backup system uses rsync to dump all files to a local disk on the same 
server where BackupPC is installed, albeit with incorrect file ownership. I 
don't want to re-transfer that data over our narrow bandwidth connection if I 
don't have to. I believe rsync will sort out permissions and timestamps on its 
own.

So far I've created a host in BackupPC and changed the transfer type to 'tar' 
and successfully imported one of its mount points, but now the tar sharename is 
called "/home/backup/<servername>/cur/<share>/", where the actual share on the 
host is simply called /<share>. 

My intention is to flip the Xfer method from 'tar' to 'rsync' after I get most 
of the larger shares imported via local tar. Is it necessary to associate the 
imported files with a specific host or does hard-linking take care of all that?

Thanks!

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