On 8/29/05, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > > * Svein Halvor Halvorsen [2005-08-28 23:53 +0200] > > > >> Does this sound reasonable? Is there any precautions I should take? Are > >> there any other tools better suited for the task at hand? > > > > > > > > I'm responding to my own message. > > > > Let's say I happen to move all music from /music/artist - album/ to > > /music/artist/album. Even though a local snapshot would handle this well, > > rsync would create new files on the remote machine, and when I then take a > > snapshot there, it will be HUGE! > > isn't that the whole point of having a backup? to have *another* copy of > your files? > > and I guess that yes, if the files are new in the remote system, when > you take a snapshot the difference with the previous snapshot will be > the size of the new data (only guessing from how snapshots work in > Linux, so feel free to flame ..err..correct me :) ) > Beto > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
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