-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07.07.2010 16:57, Kameleon wrote: >>> Yet what I have in mind would be "don't transfer a file if we already >>> have it in the pool", thus drastically reducing the amount of data >>> transferred over the net. >>> >>> IIRC, the rsync protocol per se should just allow that, but I am unsure >>> if BackupPC utilizes it at that level. >>> >>> So is this "transfer minimization" doable with BackupPC? >> >> Rsync compares only against the last full backup tree on the same host, >> transferring the differences. Once you get started it will work the way you >> want, but each new machine will transfer everything on the first run and if >> the >> same file is added on many machines, it will be copied separately from each, >> then merged in the pool. One thing you might do to to help get started >> would >> be to take the server on-site to each office for the first full run, then >> move >> to its permanent location. Or if you have the bandwidth, perhaps you can >> do >> the initial run over a weekend.
Thanks to everyone for the clearance. While not 100% the thing I had in mind, I think I can live with the backup server travelling around a bit for the initial backups then. - -- Udo Rader | CEO BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH | company Eduard-Bodem-Gasse 5 | address A-6020 Innsbruck | city +43 512 935834 | phone http://www.bestsolution.at | web -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMNKKRAAoJEJA9QoEqa9WByiMH/0MKpKJ3R7F8U11UNOZAwRuW LHklLDPthv5AwNPaId3jvkeIelXccc6ZIVQDJtxESrGZdnDXlEF9nsrf0e9PLuwi 9byC4xS1AL12cRVbTjniJQaGPlJUjfwaQKfTulAULVIjkp+CNET3TaCznua4Enky l6cfG3O6shgwDSI8aFMFNUkK9TtxI57R004G+fZbts5gYlFxpxLUTeWljMa0zt2d PSUQF3umzJ3M1Eqadcy0p8jWJ4IkJtXSgBSbq13lURvFMRESOekUV/M+mDYszApS 0C+YJLY/9ZtumaeyPwi/h+jSwgtxcX4RTl2voZ4a8IwOV8r6yaQ/p3r2tL+Ba8o= =6iwg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/