deja-dup issue

[Tony Arnold]

Colin,

On 16/05/16 13:42, Colin Law wrote:
> On 16 May 2016 at 13:27, Jatin khatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday 15 May 2016 12:55 PM, Petter Adsen wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 15 May 2016 08:09:30 +0100
>> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 15 May 2016 at 05:07, Jatin khatri <khatri.jatin at gmail.com> wrote:

>> One more question, Does it support Compression and Incremental backup ( same
>> like Deja-Dup)  ?
> 
> Assuming that you mean backintime then no to compression.  If a file
> has not changed then hard links are used in the backup so that the
> unchanged file takes up (effectively) no space.

Just to add to this. If the backups on a different file system to the
source, then copies are made. Or is that only for the first snapshot? Do
subsequent snapshots use hard links to the backed up version for
unchanged files?

Regards,
Tony.
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