Hendrik Friedel wrote:

> Has anyone tried out the enhancements of rsync 3.0 yet?
>
> "The 3.0.0 version number is such a large bump up from 2.6.9 due to  
> the
> addition of an incremental recursion scan (which helps a lot with  
> large
> transfers)"
>
> "    - A new incremental-recursion algorithm is now used when rsync is
> talking
>   to another 3.x version.  This starts the transfer going more quickly
>   (before all the files have been found), and requires much less  
> memory.
>   See the --recursive option in the manpage for some restrictions.
>
>
> - The default --delete algorithm is now --delete-during when talking  
> to
> a
>   3.x rsync.  This is a faster scan than using --delete-before  
> (which is
>   the default when talking to older rsync versions), and is compatible
> with
>   the new incremental recursion mode."
>
> This might improve the performance in conjunction with BackupPC

It won't until File::RsyncP is updated to work with this new protocol  
version. You can use BackupPC with clients that have rsync 3  
installed, but they will just negotiate an older protocol version.

Nils Breunese.

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