Hello,

is there an easy way to parallelize the rsync operations on the host to 
beckup?

Here's my problem: the host I need to back up has a /home of about 300Gb 
full of really small files (10 millions maybe). Each scan of the file 
system takes a really long time. The storage I use for it, though, is 
quite fast and has a lot of disks, thus parallelizing the operations 
(say, 1 rsync for each user under /home/* and 10 parallel threads) would 
ideally shorten the scan time by a factor of 10 given a powerful enough 
backup server.

I know I could create several backuppc "hosts" all pointing to the same 
hostname, and one backs up a subset of users, but maybe there's some 
other parameter I could use.

Regards,

-- 
.a.c.
Andrea Carpani
andrea.carpani AT dnshosting DOT it
+39 329 722 1309


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