Re: Tarsnap and hard disk swap

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 02/24/16 15:34, Nicholas Lee wrote:
> On 25 February 2016 at 09:13, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com
> <mailto: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.

Right, I should have been clearer about that.  Every machine is its own
deduplication domain.

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Colin Percival
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