If you want to de-duplicate a live filesystem you would need to modify the
filesystem code. The problem with deduplication and creating
hardlinks/softlinks is that if you write to any one of the deduplicated
files, all of its links would also be writted too which is not a good
idea...
It would be
Msquared wrote:
I guess the simple question is, then: is there a tool you can run that
will de-dupe and/or re-merge with the pool?
How about a linux tool like either of these? There is a risk of
linking two files that are the same, but are semantically different...
like an attrib file o
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:47:13PM +1100, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> > so..yet you can merge them but I am not sure if you get deduplication
> > in the next nightly run...
>
> You would not get proper de-duplication... basically you keep the
> de-duplication amongst the files you copy across, but be
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dan wrote:
> I have done this on a small setup a while ago. I just pulled over the
> pc directory from one into the other and adjusted my config files for
> the imported backups.. aditionally I made an error when copying and
> brought over numeric us
I have done this on a small setup a while ago. I just pulled over the pc
directory from one into the other and adjusted my config files for the
imported backups.. aditionally I made an error when copying and brought
over numeric user ids for the files and had to chown them. Im not sure if
the ni
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:55:36AM +0100, Michael Kuss wrote:
> historically, I run backuppc on two servers. One runs version 2.1.2 on
> Scientific Linux 4.7, the other 3.x (can't check right now) on Fedora
> Core 7. Both backup different sets of hosts. Some hosts are being
> backed up by both of
Hello,
historically, I run backuppc on two servers. One runs version 2.1.2 on
Scientific Linux 4.7, the other 3.x (can't check right now) on Fedora Core 7.
Both backup different sets of hosts. Some hosts are being backed up by both of
them (primarily laptops and one of the servers). Now, I wou
