> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 5:19 PM
> To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] (somewhat solved) Backing up many small
> files
> 
> > This indicates that I was wrong; directory/inode traversal is not the
> > issue. It's speedy enough to run the test. It is likely in the rsync
block
> > checksum comparison after all.
> 
> How does this time compare to an incremental where few/no files
> actually change?  You should only do the checksum comparison on fulls
> or files where the directory timestamp/length differ on incrementals.
>   If there is an extreme difference, maybe you are out of available
> RAM and pushing the server or target into swap with the size of the
> directory contents.

"A lot faster".

So can I disable checksumming and still use rsync, or is it tar I want?

-- 
/Sorin

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