The accurate backup feature allow to handle deleted files, not files that
have been renamed.

You can implement this feature with a script that detect duplicate files and
make hardlinks. 
After that, bacula will know that it's the same file, and will backup only
one version.

Bye

Frank Sweetser-2 wrote:
> 
> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 
>> 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.)?
> 
> I haven't worked with this feature myself, but if you search through the 
> mailing list archives for "accurate restore" you should be able to find
> the 
> discussions on it.
> 
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