Re: [Hampshire] Open source network backup with de-dupe.

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Author: Keith Edmunds
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Open source network backup with de-dupe.
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:56:01 +0100, james.dutton@??? said:

> Say you change one byte in a large file. rsync will not send the
> entire file again, it will only send the changes.


That's what BackupPC does.

However, Chris is right: you cannot *know* that two files are the same
unless you compare them, byte by byte. If hashes are good enough for you,
just backup the hashes and save lots of time and diskspace!

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Keith Edmunds

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