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.