Hi, I've been reading docs on BackupPC and I have a few questions about how it works.
First off, I gather that it keeps a hardlinked pool of data, so whenever a file changes on any host, on the backup device, it will be hardlinked to a file containing the same data, regardless of the host it came from, right? So, given that, I don't really understand why there is a distinction between a full and an incremental backup. Shouldn't either one take up the same amount of space? That is, if you've got few changes on the client, then on the server you're mostly just hardlinking things anyway, right? So why is there a choice? Secondly, I gather that BackupPC mangles filenames. That doesn't bother me, but how is it possible to use rsync in an efficient way with that? rsync wouldn't be able to match up client-side filenames with the server-side names since the server names are different, so it wouldn't do its efficient transfers. Either that or you're having to create temporary directory trees on the server, which sounds inefficient. Or am I missing something? Thanks, -- John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
