I'm backing up a rather huge system which I had synced with rsync before.

First I've made a backup of my local copy using rsyncd, which worked pretty 
fine. I used the "ClientNameAlias" setting to access my local system instead of 
the live server. "RsyncShareName" was pointing to the appropriate rsyncd module 
name.

The second time I'm now trying to backup the live system instead of my local 
copy. I'm using rsync over SSH, which means I had to change XferMethod and 
RsyncShareName. Additionally I've also removed the ClientNameAlias setting.

The backup seems to work will, as the data gets copied. However, since it takes 
extremely long, I have the impression that the old backups are not found 
anymore, and the full data is transferred again.

I have no proof if the old data is really ignored, just think that it takes way 
too long. Can anyone confirm this? Is it a bug?

It would have been very easy if rsyncd allows module names to be named like 
paths, e.g. "/". However, as this doesn't work I was forced to change the 
RsyncShareName...

- michael


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