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A new generation cloud backup tool
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Same storage, different protocols #130

Open nikjft opened 7 years ago

nikjft commented 7 years ago

I'm testing duplicacy to back up files to a drive on a local server. I'm using SFTP for most computers backing up to it, but I also want to back up other drives on that same server to its backup drive.

Will it be a problem if one of the backing-up computers is using local disk as the storage protocol and the others are using SFTP, or should I have the server SFTP back to itself?

gilbertchen commented 7 years ago

You can use SFTP and local drive to back up to the same storage. Both SFTP and local drive use the same hierarchical chunk directory so this should work. It would be a problem if one is SFTP or local drive and the other is a cloud storage, because the cloud storage uses a flat chunk directory (all chunks under the same directory).

robbat2 commented 7 years ago

Please offer a hierarchical storage option for cloud storage systems, because they aren't always zero-cost for huge flat directories.