On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:42 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> 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 at gmail.com