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 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:25:10 +0100, james.dutton@??? said:

> If two sites have the same data, and one site has already sent the
> initial backup seeding to the central site, the second site should not
> need to also send the same data.


Further to my earlier reply: yes, it does need to send the data (otherwise
the server won't know it's the same). However, BackupPC only *stores* one
copy of the data.

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Keith Edmunds

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