Richard Hansen wrote:
>>> The clients have 4 to 6 
>>> million (largely redundant) files each.  

>> Using tar as the xfer method would avoid the issue with the tradeoff 
>> that you use more bandwidth for full runs and don't reflect changes 
>> quite as accurately in increments.
> 
> I've switched to tar for now, and I'm hoping that it will prove to be an 
> adequate solution.

It's kind of off-topic here, but maybe there's a better way to deal with 
the files you said were largely redundant - perhaps subversion or some 
other revision control system would work better than storing so many 
copies as individual files.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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