Holger Parplies wrote at about 20:01:28 +0200 on Wednesday, April 20, 2011: > 4.) There *was* an attempt to write a specialized BackupPC client (BackupPCd) > quite a while back. I believe this was given up for lack of human > resources. I always found this matter rather interesting, but I've never > gotten around to even taking a look at the code, let alone do anything > with it. > Interesting... it might be worthwhile to revisit this in the context of the new BackupPC ver 4. In particular, with ver 4 using full file md5sums (and potentially maybe other sha checksums), one could imagine an rsync extension that in the absence of a matching file, would first compute the local md5sum and transmit it to the BackupPC server to look for an exact pool match...
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