Frank Sweetser schrieb:
> 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.

How does this feature works? Does it simply checksum all files before 
they are transferred, or does it use a bit of more intelligence (trying 
to compare size, filenames, timestamps first etc.)?


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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