The incremental-recursion algorithm would be a huge win for a lot of our 
backups, in particular for doing backups of larger mail servers that have 
MailDir as the store.  Is there any plan for migrating that in?

David.

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On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Hendrik Friedel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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
>
> Has anyone used this windows-binary of rsync:
> http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_pag
> e&PAGE_id=6&MMN_position=23:23
>
> It is open source and is linked on the Rsync website.
>
> Greetings,
> Hendrik
>
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