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Re: Tarsnap and hard disk swap





On 25 February 2016 at 09:13, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
On 02/23/16 08:10, John Gamble wrote:

> 2).  Instead of simply copying across some files to the new hard disk, as
> mentioned above, would it be better, from a backup point of view, to copy
> across my entire /home directory to the new disk, rather than individual
> files?  (I'm currently running Linux, with my /home directory located on a
> separate disk partition from the operating system.)

Tarsnap doesn't care.  The deduplication will recognize duplicate data even if
files move around.


Needs to be the same machine key though.

Nicholas