On Friday 29 August 2008 12:19:26 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I have a couple of users which sporadically edit video files.
> 
> These files can take several hundred megabytes and are also subject to 
> backup.
> 
> The thing is, users often move these files, i.e. from directory A to 
> directory B. And copy to directory C two days later. The next day, they 
> change files name from movie_a.avi to new_commercial.avi.
> 
> All these file renames/copying/moving make a big problem for our current 
> backup setup - the files are transferred again and again over slow 
> Internet, although files didn't change and their checksums are still the 
> same.
> 
> 
> Can Bacula deal with file renames, copying (their time stamp can 
> differ), moving etc.?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tomasz Chmielewski
> http://wpkg.org

Hello.

To my mind, no.

On some seminar, EMC told its backup software does that, or actually that it 
does never backup the multiple copies of the same file, but I guess it's the 
same.

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