Re: [BackupPC-users] Using --checksum instead of --ignore-times for full backup in BackupPC 3.3.1

2016-12-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Rahul Amaram wrote: > > 1. What I am trying to achieve: transfer lesser traffic for full-backups. My > understanding is that --checksum transfers the file content only if there > are changes unlike --ignore-times but there are certain tradedoffs (Ref: > http://ser

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using --checksum instead of --ignore-times for full backup in BackupPC 3.3.1

2016-12-15 Thread Rahul Amaram
That was quite a criticizing reply for trying to experiment with something. Anyway, to answer couple of your queries: 1. What I am trying to achieve: transfer lesser traffic for full-backups. My understanding is that --checksum transfers the file content only if there are changes unlike --igno

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using --checksum instead of --ignore-times for full backup in BackupPC 3.3.1

2016-12-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Rahul Amaram wrote on 2016-12-14 20:23:27 +0530 [[BackupPC-users] Using --checksum instead of --ignore-times for full backup in BackupPC 3.3.1]: > I am running backuppc in Debian. I am currently using backuppc 3.3.1, > rsync 3.1.2 and libfile-rsync-perl 0.74. > > I have changed the option -