dan wrote:

> Rsync v3 does greatly(samba's words) improve memory usage and file  
> list transfer time, as well as allowing transfers to begin before  
> the full file list is tranfered.  hardlink transfers are also much  
> faster in v3.
>
> Other nice features are support for extended attributes and acls  
> with rsync v3.
>
> Anyone know if rsync3 can but used with backuppc?  is it's syntax  
> different enough that backuppc would need modified to run with it?

I have rsync 3 on my Linux client machines and it works just fine, but  
BackupPC isn't using any rsync 3 specific features AFAIK. Rsync and  
BackupPC's File::RsyncP module negotiate a protocol version and  
File::RsyncP doesn't support the latest versions of the rsync protocol  
yet.

Nils.

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