Les Mikesell napsal(a):
> On 11/9/10 2:13 AM, Boniforti Flavio wrote:
>> Hello everybody.
>>
>> One of my remote servers has grown a single directory from a couple of
>> GB to 20GB in one day. Now backups (rsync through ssh) seem to be taking
>> ages and time-out after 72000 seconds. My question: when such a backup
>> gets stopped, will the next task consider the already transferred amount
>> of data, or will it start from the beginning? How may I check this
>> behaviour?
> 
> An rsync full should be marked as a 'partial' with the completed portion 
> merged 
> into the previous full as the comparison base when it restarts.  I think an 
> incomplete incremental is discarded.  I'd bump up the timeout and add a -C 
> (compress) option to your ssh command if you haven't already, and if it is 
> trying an incremental, force a full run at the first opportunity.
> 


Hi,

for huge dirs with millions of files we got almost an order of magnitude
faster runs with the tar mode instead of rsync (which eventually
consumed all the memory anyways :) )

Pavel.

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