rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

[Norberto Meijome]

Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> * Svein Halvor Halvorsen [2005-08-28 23:53 +0200]
> 
>> Does this sound reasonable? Is there any precautions I should take? Are 
>> there any other tools better suited for the task at hand?
> 
> 
> 
> I'm responding to my own message.
> 
> Let's say I happen to move all music from /music/artist - album/ to 
> /music/artist/album. Even though a local snapshot would handle this well, 
> rsync would create new files on the remote machine, and when I then take a 
> snapshot there, it will be HUGE! 

isn't that the whole point of having a backup? to have *another* copy of 
your files?

and I guess that yes, if the files are new in the remote system, when 
you take a snapshot the difference with the previous snapshot will be 
the size of the new data (only guessing from how snapshots work in 
Linux, so feel free to flame ..err..correct me :) )
Beto