On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:55:35AM +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > Does backuppc support the --sparse flag for rsyncd remote backups - > searching for answers led me to 'probably not' in an old post.
I don't know for sure, but I doubt it since BackupPC_dump will probably just produce zeroes and compress them. > If it is supported, any benefit of using it with my famous database backup > dumps? No, you wouldn't benefit since your database dumps will probably not contain long chains of zero bytes. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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/
