Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: Offsite copy-backup to removable SATA HotSwap LVM Sets?

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:44, Dan Pritts wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:53:33PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > 
> > I'd expect to see quite a lot of temp file activity that would
> > result in changes to unused space on the live system.  It would
> 
> Yeah, you're right - i think of this as all being rsync based
> but it sort of is and sort of isn't.  Files get transferred
> to the store disk and then get pooled, rather than using
> rsync --link-dest.    

Even a normal rsync transfer of anything with changes builds
a new copy of the file and replaces the old only when the
new temp copy is complete.   Hmmm... I guess that means the
partition image scheme needs disk space for a 2nd copy
of the file at the remote side.

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  Les Mikesell
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