BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Is it OK to use rsync 3.0.3 with BackupPC 3.1.0 ?

2008-08-06 00:38:57
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Is it OK to use rsync 3.0.3 with BackupPC 3.1.0 ?
From: Bernhard Egger <bernhard AT aces.snu.ac DOT kr>
To: dan <dandenson AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:38:45 +0900
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yes, because BackupPC uses its own implementation of the rsync protocol.
Nevertheless, backups that wouldn't complete with 2.6.9 now work
perfectly, so I guess they must have fixed some problems on the client
as well.

dan wrote:
> rsync 3 will work but will function just like rsync 2 did without the
> new features.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Bernhard Egger <bernhard AT aces.snu.ac DOT kr
> <mailto:bernhard AT aces.snu.ac DOT kr>> wrote:
> 
> I had similar issues (backups wouldn't complete), and after upgrading
> both servers and clients to rsync to 3.0.2, the problems went away.
> 
> I use BackupPC in two different locations with quite many clients and
> have not had any issues caused by rsync 3.0.2 so far.
> 
> --be
> 
> Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
>> Hi.  I use rsync as my transfer mechanism.
> 
>> I am considering upgrading rsync from 2.6.9 to 3.x, as I am unable to
>> run a full backup with rsync 2.6.9 -- memory utilization's out the
>> roof (lots of files to transfer) and the server slows to an unusable
>> crawl.
> 
>> rsync 3.x has this fixed.... any reason I can't tear out 2.6.9 and
>> plug in 3.0.3. <http://3.0.3.>?  has anybody done that?
> 
>> Best,
>> -at
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