[BackupPC-users] Pooling doesn't work

[Patric H. <pa...@ha...>]

Hello everybody,

i'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 with Debian Lenny. BackupPC is responsible
for about 5 Clients which are backupped over rsync/ssh.

My problem is, that during an incremental backup nearly every file is
marked as "create", so nearly every file will be downloaded again.
About 20% are marked as "pool".
But those files marked as "create" haven't changed since the last run,
timestamps are still the same. For example the whole /etc directory will
be downloaded every day. And I can surely say that nothing changed there.

This results an an extensive amount of traffic, which is unacceptable.
For example: My old, handwritten rsync-based solution found around 50MB
of changed files, but BackupPC 3000MB.

An example
File Size/Count Reuse Summary
	Totals 	Existing Files 	New Files
Backup# 	Type 	#Files 	Size/MB 	MB/sec 	#Files 	Size/MB 	#Files 	Size/MB

35 	incr 	996 	3560.5 	1.69 	710 	178.9 	402 	3381.7

Does anyone has an idea? This would be great.

Big thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Patric