Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:45 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>> >> Yeah, I know, we're trying to move stuff around, that's not infrequent, >> given the amount of data my folks generate. > > And that's the other place that backuppc will help. If you move a > file that is already in an existing backup, backuppc's rsync will copy > it over the network because it doesn't have a match in that location, > but when it goes to add the compressed copy to the pool it will notice > that there is already a file with identical content there and use a > hardlink instead of needing additional space. > Um, but rsync will already do that. Anyway, when I mean move things, I meant whole backups to a less-full drive, or the much rarer times that we need to move a user who's using a *large* amount of space. mark