Re: [OT] Building a new backup server

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:42 PM,  <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Backuppc will match up identical content, no matter where it finds it.
>>  If it is a different copy or moved to a different location it does
>> have to transfer it to the backuppc server, but then it will be
>> discarded and replaced with a link to the existing pooled copy.
>
> Right. Moving things, though, for us is manual, esp. since it can
> sometimes take days (like the 700+G I've been trying to copy from a 3TB
> drive that was defective to another that seems ok...)

But even little automated things like logfile rotation can add up when
you catch it across a bunch of noisy hosts.  You don't really need to
store the whole contents of yesterday's messages.1 and today's
messages.2 separately when they are the same thing, just renamed.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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