On May 12, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Ian Levesque wrote:

> I've got a client I'm backing up via rsync (BackupPC v3.1). I recently
> added a very large directory to the filesystem I'm backing up, which
> has many hundred thousand files inside it. I don't need to backup this
> directory, so I've added a BackupFilesExclude entry (i.e., /home/
> username/directory) to my config. Sure enough, the directory is not
> being backed up -- that's good. The only problem is that since I've
> added this directory, backups are taking _very_ long; incrementals are
> taking 3 days, where they used to take 10 hours. So my guess is that
> the rsync is evaluating all of the directory's contents rather than
> excluding en masse.


FYI, running a full backup appears to have resolved the slow  
incremental issue. I'm not entirely sure why that is, but I'm glad  
things are back to normal. I saw this solution mentioned quite a bit  
in the mailing list for people complaining about long backup times;  
Perhaps a candidate for the FAQ?

Cheers,
Ian

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