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.?

Not yet.  The development version has this feature, but it hasn't made it into 
the stable production version yet.

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